Gaston Bachelard Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

• The blank page gives us the right to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Pages

  "The Poetics of Reverie". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1960.

• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

• Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Disappointment, Ideas, Giving

• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Solitude

• Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Science, Giving, Departure

• The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Giving, Poetry

• Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Giving, Littles, Irony

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