At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDThe house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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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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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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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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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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