Quotes by : Gaston Bachelard

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past,....

There is no original truth, only original error.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which....

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while....

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream,....

Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted,....

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night....

Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate,....