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.
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.
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?
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.
individuality age force
In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche
causality poetic
The poetic image exists apart from causality.
states impermanence finality
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.