Gaston Bachelard Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. His most important work is on poetics and on the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break. He rose to some of the most more.. more..

“ Gaston Bachelard: To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. #Books - Reading#Books - Reading

“ Gaston Bachelard: The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. #Progress#Progress

“ Gaston Bachelard: Man is an imagining being. #Imagination#Imagination

“ Gaston Bachelard: A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. #Language#Language

“ Gaston Bachelard:Man is an imagining being. #Imagination#Imagination

“ Gaston Bachelard:Poetry is one of the destinies of speech.... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. #Poetry and Poets#Poetry and Poets

“ Gaston Bachelard: I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company. #Words #Words

“ Gaston Bachelard:True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams. #Poetry and Poets#Poetry and Poets

“ Gaston Bachelard: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. #Destiny#Destiny

“ Gaston Bachelard:The reflected world is the conquest of calm #Victory#Victory

“ Gaston Bachelard:The world is intense before becoming complex. #Simplicity#Simplicity

“ Gaston Bachelard:Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world. #Poetry and Poets#Poetry and Poets

“ Gaston Bachelard: Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. #Literature#Literature

“ Gaston Bachelard: Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. #Ideas#Ideas

“ Gaston Bachelard:Words... are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in ‘foreign commerce’ on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves—this is a poet’s life. To mount too high or descend too low is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together. #Dreams#Dreams

“ Gaston Bachelard: One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. #Past#Past

“ Gaston Bachelard: Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. #Desire#Desire

“ Gaston Bachelard: A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream. #Writers and Writing#Writers and Writing

“ Gaston Bachelard: Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. #Metaphysics#Metaphysics

“ Gaston Bachelard:One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort. #Past#Past

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