Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Explore a curated collection of 15 quotes by Gaston Bachelard. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of languag — 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 — Gaston Bachelard
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
Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage — Gaston Bachelard
Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life — Gaston Bachelard
Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has — 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 — Gaston Bachelard
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, — Gaston Bachelard
Contemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges our world as dreamer — Gaston Bachelard
So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us. — Gaston Bachelard
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. — Gaston Bachelard
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to — Gaston Bachelard
There is no original truth, only original error. — Gaston Bachelard
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protect — Gaston Bachelard