The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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We must listen to poets.
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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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