One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARDTo verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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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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To 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.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Man is an imagining being.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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