At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Man is an imagining being.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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We must listen to poets.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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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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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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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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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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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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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