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Men Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
- Man is an imagining being.
- Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of…
- Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
- 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…
- 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 clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
- A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well…
- Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world,…
- 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…
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