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.
GASTON BACHELARDFor 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?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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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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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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We must listen to poets.
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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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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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