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 BACHELARDThe subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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Man is an imagining being.
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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