Creation Quote by Gaston Bachelard Download Open image “Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.” — Gaston Bachelard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Creation Desire Man
If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share
Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Needing is a state of the ego that tries to convince us that we are empty and we need something to feel love, success… — Melanie Tonia Evan Copy Share Image
“Needs are very few and a man who understands what is needful will always be happy and blissful. Desires are many, needs are few. Needs can be fulfilled; desires, never. A desire is a need gone crazy. It is impossible to fulfill it. The more you try to fulfill it, the more it goes on asking, asking, asking.” — Osho Copy Share
The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“am not suggesting that successes in academics, athletics, or vocation somehow stand outside God’s good plan. Learning and play are joys that God himself… — Timothy Paul Jones Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
And wheresoever, in his rich creation, Sweet music breathes--in wave, or bird, or soul-- 'Tis but the faint and far reverberation Of that great… — Frances Sargent Osgood Copy Share Image
I believe if there is a creator it will basically ask me two questions, how well did you enjoy my creation and what did… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
With no other choices open to us, we'd turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed… — Carsten Jensen Copy Share Image
In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The creation lives as genesis beneath the visible surface of the work. All intelligent people see this after the fact, but only the creative… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image