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Gaston Bachelard Quotes
French
-
Philosopher
June 27
, 1884 -
October 16
, 1962
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
Life
,
Live Life
,
Live
,
Living
,
Express
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
,
Peace
,
Name
,
Dreamer
,
House
,
Dream
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
Gaston Bachelard
Fire
,
Childhood
,
Always
,
Up
,
Us
,
Within
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
Future
,
Poetry
,
Language
,
Speech
,
Say
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
Science
,
Progress
,
Know
,
Knowing
,
Our
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
Gaston Bachelard
Soul
,
Mind
,
Gift
,
Vacuum
,
Hour
,
Rather
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
Man
,
Desire
,
Need
,
Creation
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Beauty
,
Language
,
Born
,
Special
,
Kind
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
Gaston Bachelard
Dreams
,
Great
,
Poetry
,
Back
,
Function
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
Morning
,
Soul
,
Sleep
,
Night
,
Rest
,
Body
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
Past
,
Connection
,
Always
,
Away
,
Maintain
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
Life
,
Child
,
World
,
Event
,
Even
,
Thus
There is no original truth, only original error.
Gaston Bachelard
Truth
,
Only
,
Original
,
Error
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
Simple
,
Ideas
,
Minds
,
Communion
,
Effect
Man is an imagining being.
Gaston Bachelard
Man
,
Being
,
Imagining
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard
Imagination
,
Aesthetic
,
Books
,
Writer
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
Will
,
Two
,
Never
,
Half
,
Make
,
Whole
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
Words
,
World
,
Want
,
Make
,
Sentences
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.
Gaston Bachelard
Truth
,
Listening
,
Subconscious
,
Hears
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