Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Children, Events

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (The Phoenix, a Linguistic Phenomenon)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

• By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Children, Sea

• There are children who will leave a game to go and be bored in a corner of the garret. How often have I wished for the attic of my boredom when the complications of life made me lose the very germ of freedom!

  Gaston Bachelard

  Happiness, Children, Games

• When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Children, Philosophical, Thinking

• Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Peace, Children, Son

• Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Children, Childhood, Reimagining

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