From Gaston Bachelard: “Daydreams transport the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”
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Quote of the day 11/16/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
Quote of the day 11/15/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.”
Quote of the day 11/14/24
From Gaston Bachelard: “Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.”
Quote of the day 11/13/24
From Heraclitus: “Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.”
Quote of the day 11/12/24
From Heraclitus: “Men forget where the way leads, and what they meet with every day seems strange to them. We should not act and speak like men asleep.”
Quote of the day 11/11/24
From Heraclitus: “Many who have learned from Hesiod the countless names of gods and monsters never understand that night and day are one.”
Quote of the day 11/10/24
From Heraclitus: “To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting.”
Quote of the day 11/09/24
From Heraclitus: “The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts.”
Quote of the day 11/08/24
From Heraclitus: “The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”
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