Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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Real talent shines through regardless of how many others there are around you.
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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You think school ends when it ends, but it doesn't.
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I saw how the Government was run there [in Africa] and I saw where black people were running the banks. I saw, for the first time in my life, a black stewardess walking through a plane and that was quite an inspiration for me.
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When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
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He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved.
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The beggarly last doit.
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So to keep a fantasy, do not peer too closely at the world; fuzzy vision suits you best. Your creative power, turned away, is aimed inside to juggle fantasies, to solve the problems of a child's intrigue.
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Walk towards the light, put it on your head and then crush your shadow that hides under your feet.
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Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
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Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of other novels.
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[ on the "tropicalization" of intellectual property laws ] To make the digital world join in the samba.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
