Gaston Bachelard Quotes

The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

Gaston Bachelard

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• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

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• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

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• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

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• The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Trying
  • Psychology