Gaston Bachelard on protection
Gaston Bachelard73 quotes“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.”
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Childhood lasts all through life.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We must listen to poets.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard
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The only real protection will come from doing a spiritual practice over a prolonged period of time. Because it retrains us to see the world and ourselves in a different way.
Krishna DasKrishna Das To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.
Radhanath SwamiRadhanath Swami No bodyguard can ever protect us from the gossips; because in the case of gossip, we are beaten in our absence!
Mehmet Murat IldanMehmet Murat Ildan There is no protection against slander.
MoliereMoliere Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas MoreThomas More Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
Mata AmritanandamayiMata Amritanandamayi When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
QuintilianQuintilian