223 Quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Childhood lasts all through life.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

Sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest

The demands of our reality function require that we adapt to reality, that we constitute ourselves as a reality and that we manufacture works which are realities. But doesn't reverie, by its very essence, liberate us from the reality function? From the moment it is considered in all its simplicity, it is perfectly evident that reverie bears witness to a normal useful irreality function which keeps the human psyche on the fringe of all the brutality of a hostile and foreign non-self.

A man is a man to the extent that he is a superman. A man should be defined by the sum of those tendencies which impel him to surpass the human condition.

The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

The poetic image exists apart from causality.