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Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Gaston Bachelard quotes about life

French Philosopher June 27, 1884 – October 16, 1962

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Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! Gaston Bachelard
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It... Gaston Bachelard
I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting... Gaston Bachelard
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold. Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard quote: "To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses..."
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer. Gaston Bachelard
Gaston Bachelard quote: "Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that..."
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

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