A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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 characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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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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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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