All Gaston Bachelard Quotes
- One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Always Maintain
- 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… Allows
- To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Express
- Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Child
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Commerce
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Beauty
- Man is an imagining being. Funny
- The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Characteristic
- 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.… Belong
- Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of… Communion
- Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Creation
- Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the… Any
- A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which… Condition
- What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when… Accumulated
- The words of the world want to make sentences. Make Sentences
- In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced. Beneath
- The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being,… Alone
- Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… Author
- Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Aesthetic
- Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. Correctives