Gaston Bachelard Quotes & Quotations

Gaston Bachelard Quotes

» Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

» To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

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

» Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

» There is no original truth, only original error.

» 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.

» 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.

» Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

» A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

» Man is an imagining being.

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