Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelardwas 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. He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 June 1884
CountryFrance
feminine ifs
If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
destiny men deep-water
To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
world calm conquest
The reflected world is the conquest of calm
dream rivers water
Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
childhood lasts
Childhood lasts all through life.
dream giving pages
The blank page gives us the right to dream.
reflection glasses mankind
It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.
sleep insomnia soul
Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
dream giving solitude
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...
reality self essence
The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.
integrity men tendencies
A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.
water proof existence
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
writing want world
The words of the world want to make sentences.
memories comfort protection
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection