Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. – Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. – Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. – Gaston Bachelard
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. – Gaston Bachelard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. – Gaston Bachelard
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon