Gaston Bachelard Quotes - Page 3

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• When 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 Bachelard

  Children, Philosophical, Thinking

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• The reverie we intend to study is poetic reverie. This is a reverie which poetry puts on the right track, the track an expanding consciousness follows. This reverie is written, or, at least, promises to be written. It is already facing the great universe of the blank page. Then images begin to compose and fall into place.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Fall, Track, Poetry

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• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Truth, Listening, Murmuring

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Stories, Shells, Clamor

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• Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Running, Reality, Perspective

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• We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Real, Expression, Emotion

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, Penguin

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• Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Soul, Mind, Vacuums

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

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• Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.

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  Imagination, World, Thanks

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• The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Night, Dreamer

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• The 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.

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  Past, Soul, Doe

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• In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Light, Views, Psychics

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• A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

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  Life, Book, Everyday

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• Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

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  Life, Tired, Heart

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• Here we are at the very core of the thesis we wish to defend in the present essay: reverie is under the sign of the anima. When the reverie is truly profound, the being who comes to dream within us is our anima. For a philosopher who takes his inspiration from phenomenology, a reverie on reverie is very exactly a phenomenology of the anima, and it is by coordinating reveries on reverie that he hopes to constitute a "Poetics of reverie". In other words, the poetics of reverie is a poetics of the anima.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Inspiration, Profound

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• Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.

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  Dream, Memories, Taken

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• To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, House, Steps

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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• Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Quality, Term, Expressive

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• In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.

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  Dream, Drama, Reading

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

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  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

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  Science, Giving, Departure

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• 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.

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  Life, Dream, Passion

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• Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Reading, Passion, Temptation

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• We believe we can also show that words do not have exactly the same psychic "weight" depending on whether they belong to the language of reverie or to the language of daylight life-to rested language or language under surveillance-to the language of natural poetry or to the language hammered out by authoritarian prosodies.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Believe, Psychics, Poetry

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• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Science, Knowing, Progress

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• If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?

  Gaston Bachelard

  Feminine, Ifs

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