Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard Quotes
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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| Birth: | 27th June, 1884 |
| Death: | 16th October, 1962 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Profession: | Philosopher |
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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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