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.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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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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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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