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
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.
design world
When the image is new, the world is new.
wind sky roots
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.
space house boxes
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
morning sleep night
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.
house world corners-of-the-world
Our house is our corner of the world.
poet
We must listen to poets.
dreamer world bears
Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
house
One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
destiny speech language
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
reading passion temptation
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.
science knowing progress
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
mistake errors originals
There is no original truth, only original error.
disappointment ideas giving
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.