What did Gaston Bachelard mean by: The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it. - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France Copy
+ The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Mind, Purity, Water, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Finality, Impermanence, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word! Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Shells, Stories, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Irony, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Feraz Zeid, July 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Gaston Bachelard, Desire, Integrity, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Beautiful, Reading, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Gaston Bachelard, Moving Forward, Moving On, Wise, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ Our house is our corner of the world. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Gaston Bachelard, Corners, House, 0 - Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
