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Quote by Gaston Bachelard
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeat

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. – Gaston Bachelard

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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event. – Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. – Gaston Bachelard

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The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away. – Linus Pauling

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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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