The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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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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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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 reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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