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
real expression emotion
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
nature moving space
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
shells stories clamor
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
past reverie
Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.
beautiful reading mean
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful...
soul mind vacuums
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
taken reality profound
The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.
past soul doe
The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
disappointment ideas giving
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.
beauty communication writing
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
destiny speech language
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
dream memories real
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
would-be response scientific-knowledge
All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
house
One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.