The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDThe past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDThe spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDEvery corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
GASTON BACHELARDWe comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
GASTON BACHELARDDaydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
GASTON BACHELARDAn excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDWhat is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
GASTON BACHELARDSo, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARDWhy should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARDThe blank page gives us the right to dream.
GASTON BACHELARD