Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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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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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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