"The words of the world want to make…" — Gaston Bachelard
"The words of the world want to make sentences."
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121 Quotes by Gaston Bachelard
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- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
- If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no…
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of…
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
- Man is an imagining being.
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night…
- Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the…
- Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
- Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary…
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