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 Copy Share Image
A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true of the entire scale of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images of hesitation, temptation,… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves? — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
