Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
GASTON BACHELARDFor in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
-
-
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
GASTON BACHELARD -
Man is an imagining being.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
GASTON BACHELARD -
It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARD -
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARD -
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
GASTON BACHELARD -
There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
GASTON BACHELARD -
We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARD -
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARD -
The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn’t really our solitude.
GASTON BACHELARD