Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARDAll knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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