The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDA word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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 great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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