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Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard
French Philosopher
Born: Jun 27, 1884
Died: Oct 16, 1962
Language Life Make Man Soul Truth
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard
Morning Soul Rest Sets Our Possession Out Must Rarely Shadows Only Opens Within Does Repose Being Us Sweep Body Phantoms Inn Belong Night Sleep
If 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 Bachelard
Home Peace Benefit Say Dream Dreamer Name House Protects Shelters Were Chief Asked Should
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event. Gaston Bachelard
Life World Minor Thus Child Even Event
There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard
Truth Only Error Original
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. Gaston Bachelard
Simple Minds Splendor Ideas Souls Effect Refined Very Commerce Communion Images
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard
Soul Gift Mind Rather Hour Knows Reverie Which Vacuum
Man is an imagining being. Gaston Bachelard
Man Being Imagining
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard
Lover Imagination Books Object Writer Aesthetic Offered Literary
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. Gaston Bachelard
Will Half Philosophers Never Make Whole Two
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. Gaston Bachelard
Dreams Great Back Our Our Dreams Give Poetry Situations Us Function
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. Gaston Bachelard
Future Language Say Destinies Would Poetic Poetry Opens Newness Image Speech

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