Gaston Bachelard

image new world

“When the image is new, the world is new.”

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

live impermanence finality

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

daydream world infinity

“Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.”

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

house shelter day-dreaming protect dreamer peace

“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 (1884-1962)

beauty language

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

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

minor event child world

“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 (1884-1962)

reality is seems

“We cannot say what reality is, only what it seems like to us.”

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

knowledge response question

"All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself."

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

cease learn teach

"He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach."

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)

man creation desire need

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

― Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962)