Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess 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 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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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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 words of the world want to make sentences.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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