Gaston Bachelard Quotes

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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

By: Gaston Bachelard

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

By: Gaston Bachelard

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To live life well is to express life poorly.. view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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The words of the world want to make sentences... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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There is no original truth, only original error... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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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... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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

By: Gaston Bachelard

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Man is an imagining being... view

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

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language... view

By: Gaston Bachelard

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