Gaston Bachelard: Quotes about the soul

Gaston Bachelard was French writer and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on soul.

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“The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.”

Gaston Bachelard

Source: The Poetics of Reverie

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

Gaston Bachelard

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 3

“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

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 3

“Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.”

Gaston Bachelard

Introduction, sect. 4
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)