Quotes Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, o...

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of tha...

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. I...

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I sh...

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a wri...

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need....

Man is an imagining being....

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and ye...

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say th...

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an ho...

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up a...

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing tha...

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situa...

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets ...

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by list...

The words of the world want to make sentences....

There is no original truth, only original error....

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresse...

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysic...

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flar...