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Gaston Bachelard
French
Philosopher
About the author
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Language
#Beauty
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,
French
Philosopher
#Life
#World
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Truth
#Listening
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Life
#Living
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Want
#Words
#World
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Dreams
#Poetry
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Will
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Truth
#Error
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,
French
Philosopher
#Being
#Night
#Rest
#Soul
#Body
#Sleep
#Possession
#Shadows
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Progress
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Childhood
#Fire
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Ideas
#Effect
#Commerce
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Man
#Desire
#Creation
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Past
#Connection
Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Being
#Man
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,
French
Philosopher
#Day
#Peace
#Name
#Dream
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Imagination
#Books
#Writer
#Literary
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard,
French
Philosopher
#Mind
#Soul
#Reverie
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,
French
Philosopher
#Language
#Future
#Poetry
#Speech