Gaston Bachelard on protection
Gaston Bachelard73 quotes“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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard When the image is new, the world is new.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The blank page gives us the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
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Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
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More on protection
Our oceans hold some of the most incredible species on the planet. It’s a world we’ve only started to explore. It’s a world we must value and protect.
Rohit SharmaRohit Sharma When others criticize us, we can reject their opinion, and Protect the self. But when we criticize the self, our mind accepts the criticism. We cannot protect the self From self-criticism Take care of what You Say To Yourself About Ourselves.
BK ShivaniBK Shivani You Have To Be Powerful, Not Because You Can Beat Others, But You Have To Be Powerful For Not To Get Beaten By Others.
Sandeep MaheshwariSandeep Maheshwari I want a man I can keep for myself. I wouldn’t ever share my man with anyone else.
Kareena KapoorKareena Kapoor A friend, even if he be the enemy’s son , should be protected.
ChanakyaChanakya The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
ChanakyaChanakya An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . Hunted out of every corner of the world.
Adam SmithAdam Smith For good days one should save money, women should be protected even if it takes the money saved. But for self preservation the money and the women should be sacrificed!!
ChanakyaChanakya
