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Quote of Gaston Bachelard - The repose of sleep refreshes only...


Biography - Gaston Bachelard:

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

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.



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(French)



French
Le repos du sommeil ne délasse que le corps. Il ne met pas toujours, il met rarement l’âme au repos, le repos de la nuit ne nous appartient pas. Il n’est pas le bien de notre être. Le sommeil ouvre en nous une auberge à fantômes. Il nous faut le matin balayer les ombres.




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Quotes for: sleep


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Quotes for: sleep


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.





Life is a sleep and love is its dream; and you have lived if you have loved.





When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep.





Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.





Sleep is the best meditation.





Sleep and Death are twin brothers.
Homer - Iliad / 











Quotes for: soul


Quotes

Quotes about soul:


Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.





Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.





At any moment you choose you can retire within yourself. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.





Do not trouble yourself, make yourself simple.





For souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.





Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.











Quotes for: body


Quotes

Quotes for: body


Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.





A healthy mind in a healthy body.





The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.





There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.





Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.





With most people the heart grows old with the body.











Quotes for: night


Quotes

Quotes for: night


As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.





Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.





I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.





I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.





For the paths of night and day are near to each other.
Homer - Iliad / 





Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
Novalis / 







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Gaston Bachelard also said...


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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