Quotes by : Gaston Bachelard

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

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in....

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination....

Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers,....

Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always....

How concrete everything becomes in the world of the spirit when an object, a mere door, can give images....

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its....

A creature that hides and “withdraws into its shell,” is preparing a “way out.” This is true....

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed....