He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDAll knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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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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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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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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When the image is new, the world is new.
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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 subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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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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We must listen to poets.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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