All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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Man is an imagining being.
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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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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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