Gaston Bachelard Quotes


I should say the house shelters daydreaming the house protects the dreamer the house allows one to dream in peace. Gaston Bachelard Space 98
There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard Mistakes 93
A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. Gaston Bachelard Authors 78
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard Philosophy 76
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Gaston Bachelard Life 75
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard Dreams 72
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard dreams 63
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard Progress 63
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Gaston Bachelard Poetry 63
Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. Gaston Bachelard Ideas 62
For a knowledge of intimacy localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates. Gaston Bachelard Home 60
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. Gaston Bachelard Sleep 55
Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard Imagination 54
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard Beauty 54
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Gaston Bachelard Desires 54
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard Ceaselessly 48
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Ideas 40
When the image is new the world is new. Gaston Bachelard Space 40
Rilke wrote These trees are magnificent but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them as though with their growth it too increased. Gaston Bachelard Space 37
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event Gaston Bachelard Children 32
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard Imagination 32
The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard Words 32
We must listen to poets. Gaston Bachelard Poets 25
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. Gaston Bachelard Home 23

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