We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDFor a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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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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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 book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
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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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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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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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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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