It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARDA book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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