He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
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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 always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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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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