Famous Quotes / Gaston Bachelard
20 Quotations by Gaston Bachelard
- 1. A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
- 2. A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen whic ...
- 3. Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
- 4. I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. ...
- 5. Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one ...
- 6. Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very s ...
- 7. If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreamin ...
- 8. Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- 9. Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
- 10. Man is an imagining being.
- 11. One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To rema ...
- 12. One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To rema ...
- 13. Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul ...
- 14. The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
- 15. The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the nigh ...
- 16. The words of the world want to make sentences.
- 17. There is no original truth, only original error.
- 18. To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in ...
- 19. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no lon ...
- 20. Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.