Quote

There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

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
Happiness
Boredom
Attic
Freedom
Corners
Attics
Often
Bored
Germ
Children
Lose
Complications
Made
Leave
Complication
Life
Game
Germs
Loses
Wished
Games
Corner
Garret

More quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Image
We understand nature by resisting it.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this failing asleep, the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
To live life well is to express life poorly if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
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.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the exalted substances.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
Gaston Bachelard
Image
Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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