There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDThe metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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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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Childhood lasts all through life.
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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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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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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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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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