It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARDRilke 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.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Man is an imagining being.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We understand nature by resisting 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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For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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