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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

Gaston Bachelard

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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Knowledge Philosophy Question Science
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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Cosmos End Face Function Imagination Man
We must listen to poets.
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Listening One Liner Poet
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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Action Imagination Perception Reality
One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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Build Home Live Oneself
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Comparison Diminish Quality Term
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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Born Call Life Spirituality Substance
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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Explanation Fire Rich Time
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Expression History Lost Poet Poetry Reality
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Addition Book Day Expression Life
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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Escape Project Separate Situation Society Stability State Time Tranquility World
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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Love Preparation Soul Sweet
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Benefit Dreams Home Peace Protection
The words of the world want to make sentences.
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Sentence Word World
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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Experience Home Science Space
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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Children Dreamer Listening Sea Word World

The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.

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