We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us. - Gaston Bachelard

Avant de penser, il faut étudier. Seuls les philosophes pensent avant d'étudier.

When a cultured and sensitive soul retraces its efforts to lay down the great lineaments of reason according to its own intellectual destiny,
when it retraces the history of its own culture through memory, it becomes aware that the vestige of an essential ignorance lies forever at the core of its intimate certainties. Within the realm of knowledge itself, there is indeed an original fault-that of having an origin; that of falling short of the glory of atemporal being; that of not awakening oneself to remain oneself, but of awaiting the lesson of light from the dark world.

Poetry, rather than being a phenomenology of the mind, is a phenomenology of the soul.