Quotes from Gaston Bachelard

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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

To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

Man is an imagining being.

A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.

There is no original truth, only original error.

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

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.