Short Quotes - Author Gaston Bachelard Showing 1 - 19 of 19 Add Quote Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Gaston Bachelard Poetry Upvote0 Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard Soul Upvote0 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 Peace Upvote0 Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard Imagination Upvote0 Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard Being Upvote0 Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Gaston Bachelard Creation Upvote0 One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. Gaston Bachelard Connection Upvote0 So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. Gaston Bachelard Childhood Upvote0 Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard Ideas Upvote0 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. Gaston Bachelard Soul Upvote0 The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Gaston Bachelard Progress Upvote0 There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard Truth Upvote0 Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard Will Upvote0 The words of the world want to make sentences. Gaston Bachelard Want Upvote0 The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard Dreams Upvote0 The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard Truth Upvote0 To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Gaston Bachelard Life Upvote0 A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. Gaston Bachelard Beauty Upvote0 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 Life Upvote0