Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Quote by Gaston Bachelard

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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.

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 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.

There is no original truth, only original error.

There is no original truth, only original error.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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....

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well,...

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well,...

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...

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...

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

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

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with...

I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with...

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability...

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability...

Everything started as nothing.

Everything started as nothing.