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)