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
dream fashion love-is
In contrast to a dream a reverie cannot be recounted. To be communicated, it must be written, written with emotion and taste, being relived all the more strongly because it is being written down. Here, we are touching the realm of written love. It is going out of fashion, but the benefits remain. There are still souls for whom love is the contact of two poetries, the fusion of two reveries.
love book imagination
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
love love-is finished
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
love two soul
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
destinies future opens poetic poetry
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
real imagination perception
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
life wells ifs
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
real book proof
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.
quality term expressive
Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
teach cease
He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
fire fields rich
At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
dream owning-a-home house
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace