Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

There is no original truth, only original error.

#Gaston Bachelard

The words of the world want to make sentences.

#Gaston Bachelard

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

#Conscious

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest....

#Gaston Bachelard

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our...

#Gaston Bachelard

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

#Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

#Gaston Bachelard

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect...

#Ideas

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind...

#Ideas

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which...

#Mind, #Reverie, #Soul