Gaston Bachelard Quotes and Sayings
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 | Refcard PDF ↑
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard | Refcard PDF ↑