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

— Gaston Bachelard The Philosophic Dialectic of the Concepts of Relativity (1949)

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

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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