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Gaston Bachelard [1884-1962] French

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break.

Poetry, Dreams, Home, Imagination, Morning, Peace, Science

Quote	Tags	Rank
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.		101
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.	Morning	102
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.	Imagination	103
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.	Home, Peace	104
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.		105
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.		106
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.	Science	107
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.	Dreams, Poetry	108
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.		109
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.		110
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.	Poetry	111
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.		112
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.		113
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.		114
There is no original truth, only original error.		115
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.		116
Man is an imagining being.		117
The words of the world want to make sentences.		118
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.		119

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