When the image is new, the world is new.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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