Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

—Gaston Bachelard

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Gaston Louis Pierre Bachelard (; French: [baʃlaʁ]; 27 June 1884 – 16 October 1962) was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter, he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique and rupture épistémologique). He...

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The hammer is the abstraction of each one of its hammerings.

—Gaston Bachelard

It is a good thing, it is even salutary, for a child to have periods'of boredom, for him to learn to know the dialectics of exaggerated play and causeless, pure boredom.

—Gaston Bachelard

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

—Gaston Bachelard

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

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Children are all foreigners.

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant—and let the air out of the tires.

—Dorothy Parker

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

—Clarence Darrow

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