A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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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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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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We must listen to poets.
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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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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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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 reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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