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Quote of Gaston Bachelard - To imagine is to raise the...


Biography - Gaston Bachelard:

French philosopher.
Born: 1884 - Died: 1962
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

To imagine is to raise the real by a tone.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Imaginer, c'est hausser le réel d'un ton.




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Quotes for: imagination


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Quotes for: imagination


Imagination is more important than knowledge.





Man, too, has wings, he has imagination.





Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.





Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?





Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.





All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.











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To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.





Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.





The dream is stronger than experience.





Nothing proceeds from itself. Nothing is given. All is constructed.





If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.





The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.












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