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.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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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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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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