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

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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