We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
GASTON BACHELARDA clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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 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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We must listen to poets.
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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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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.
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All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must record it.
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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 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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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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