Gaston Bachelard: Citations en anglais

Gaston Bachelard était philosophe français. Citations en anglais.
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“Words … are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in ‘foreign commerce’ on the same level as the others, as the passers-by, who are never dreamers. To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream, it is losing oneself in the distant corridors of an obscure etymology, looking for treasures that cannot be found in words. To mount and descend in the words themselves—this is a poet’s life. To mount too high or descend too low is allowed in the case of poets, who bring earth and sky together.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 6

“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life…. Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.”

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Gaston Bachelard

Introduction, sect. 6
La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960)

“There is no original truth, only original error.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.”

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Gaston Bachelard

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.”

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

“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.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre L'Eau et les Rêves

Introduction
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942

“The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.”

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Gaston Bachelard livre La poétique de l'espace

La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958)

“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.”

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

“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

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

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Gaston Bachelard

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

“One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.”

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A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

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

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Gaston Bachelard

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.”

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

“Man is an imagining being.”

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Gaston Bachelard

Source: La poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie) (1960), Ch. 2, sect. 10