Best Gaston Bachelard Quotations
- Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives… Becomes
- So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Always Flare
- What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns? Action
- The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness. Happiness
- Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. Any
- It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a… Asleep
- The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth. Ceaselessly
- By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is… Becomes
- In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this… Act
- The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness… Already Facing
- All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the poetic consciousness must… All
- Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one… Age
- For in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we… Cosmos
- Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but… Activity
- 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 study… Admire
- Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the… Confidence
- In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is… Abstraction
- One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. Inspirational
- Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But… All
- The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… Alchemist
- We understand nature by resisting it. Funny
- Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Half
- In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it… Age
- The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately. Acts
- Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! Clamor
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