The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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We must listen to poets.
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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