Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard

Topics: Mind Quotes, Reverie Quotes, Soul Quotes

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest....

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest....

Man is an imagining being.

Man is an imagining being.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that...

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that...

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from...

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind...

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which...

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our...

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our...

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for...

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one...

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one...

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a...

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a...

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones...

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones...