Gaston Bachelard: Quotes about the world

Gaston Bachelard was French writer and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“When the image is new, the world is new.”

Source: The Poetics of Space

“The reflected world is the conquest of calm”

"Clear Waters, Springtime Waters"
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

“The words of the world want to make sentences.”

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 5, sect. 4

“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.”

The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon, ch. 1
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)