All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
GASTON BACHELARDTo 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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A 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.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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