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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Gaston Bachelard

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Adult Children Lost See Thinking World
Childhood lasts all through life.
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Childhood Life One Liner
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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Gift Mindset Soul Time
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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Expression Life Live Oneself Philosophy Poor Understand
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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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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Act Direct Image Origin
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Blank Dreams Page Right
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Destiny Disappear Finding Infinity Nature Water
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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Distance Edge Imagination Live Past Soul Time Universe
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Experience Image Imagination Kill
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Children Event Life World
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Comfortable Memories Ourselves Protection
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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Childhood Children Cover Imagination Ourselves Possible Solitary

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

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