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Life Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
- Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital…
- Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us,…
- A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
- The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
- A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
- Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in…
- 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…
- It is quite evident that a barrier must be cleared in order to escape the psychologists and enter into a realm which is not "auto-observant",…
- We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of…
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but…
- In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it…
- Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the…
- I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought…
- Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our…
- There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle