To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard

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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.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say:...

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say:...

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...

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image,...

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image,...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Man is an imagining being.

Man is an imagining being.

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...

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes...

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea...

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.