Gaston Bachelard Quotes

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Dream, Soul

  Tags in Reverie, Mind

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Ceaselessly, Murmuring, Listening, Conscious

• To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Life, Wedding

  Tags in Quality, Marriage, Living

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Knowing

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Object, Aesthetic, Literary, Literature

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

  Gaston Bachelard

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  Tags in Language

• 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

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  Tags in Poetic, Speech, Language

• Man is an imagining being.

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  Tags in Imagination

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Lies, Ideas

• 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

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Allow, Protects, House

• 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.

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  Tags in Phantoms, Morning, Sleep

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

  Gaston Bachelard

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  Tags in Metaphysics, Half, Whole

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

  Gaston Bachelard

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  Tags in Within, Childhood, Forgotten

• There is no original truth, only original error.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Original

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

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  Tags in Back

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

  Gaston Bachelard

  Topics in Creation

• The words of the world want to make sentences.

  Gaston Bachelard

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

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  Topics in Past

  Tags in Ceaselessly

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Events

Gaston Bachelard (19)

Birth:	27th June, 1884
Death:	16th October, 1962
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

About

Gaston Bachelard was born in Bar-sur-Aube, France. He was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. He was a professor at Dijon from 1930 to 1940 and then became the inaugural chair in history and philosophy of the sciences at the Sorbonne. He wrote several books include: The Poetics of Space, The Poetics of Reverie, The Psychoanalysis of Fire, Water and Dreams, The Formation of the Scientific Mind, Air and dreams, and The flame of a candle.

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