Gaston Bachelard Quotes

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

Gaston Bachelard

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• Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Sad

• I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.

  

  Vera Wang
  • True
  • Past
  • Myself

• I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.

  

  Verite
  • Live
  • Black
  • Color

• I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Think
  • Best

• Hair and make-up always helps. I did always try to be well-groomed, professional at all times. Take your job seriously - but not yourself.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Up
  • Job
  • Hair

• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thought
  • Passionate
  • WIld

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Good
  • Never
  • Become

• I am a just man.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Man

• I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Political
  • Myself
  • Deep

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • War

• If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Think
  • Look
  • Choice

• Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Christ
  • Within

• It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me. Everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring, Nature. All things come of you, have their being in you, and return to you.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Universe

• I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

  

  Don Cooper
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Baseball

• I like storms. I would say I actively like stormy weather. I would not be afraid of them. I think that if I had not pursued journalism, I think storm-chasing would've been a really fun career.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Fun
  • Career
  • Storm

• One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Ideas

• New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Music
  • Friends
  • House

• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Water
  • Deep
  • Destiny