Quote

Man is an imagining being.

Gaston Bachelard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gaston Bachelard
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: June 27
Died: 1962
Died: October 16
G 巴什拉
G. Bachelard
Imagining
Men

More quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Image
The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
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.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
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!
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Childhood lasts all through life.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace
Gaston Bachelard
Image
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.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!
Gaston Bachelard
Image
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the solitary situation, the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality but it helps us establish perspectives.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
Gaston Bachelard