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
sleep insomnia soul
Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest
men silence soul
Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!
imagination soul common
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.
soul mind vacuums
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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.
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.