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Human Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which…
- The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides…
- 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…
- 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…
- In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this…
- Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But…
- The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which…
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