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.
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.
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.
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.
beauty communication writing
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
nature moving space
Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
description subjects objects
Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
substance nouns body
What action could bodies and substances have if they were not named in a further increase of dignity where common nouns become proper nouns?
knowledge cutting exercise
In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
destiny men deep-water
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.
miscellaneous resisting
We understand nature by resisting it.