The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARD
GASTON BACHELARD
Gaston Bachelard on spirituality
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Our house is our corner of the world.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard When the image is new, the world is new.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard The blank page gives us the right to dream.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard 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.
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
Gaston BachelardGaston Bachelard Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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