He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDHe who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDThe reflected world is the conquest of calm.
GASTON BACHELARDChildhood lasts all through life.
GASTON BACHELARDBy listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
GASTON BACHELARDIf we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
GASTON BACHELARDWhen we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
GASTON BACHELARDWe must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDOur house is our corner of the world.
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 BACHELARDThe reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDIf I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
GASTON BACHELARDThe words of the world want to make sentences.
GASTON BACHELARDThere is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARDIt is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
GASTON BACHELARD