What did Gaston Bachelard mean by: Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists. Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France Copy
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Awareness, Knowledge, Progress, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Childhood, Perspective, Significance, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception? Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Imagination, Perception, Reality, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Author, June 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Childhood, Creativity, Inspiration, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Beauty, Life, Literature, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy…. aerial joy is freedom. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Freedom, Joy, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Dreaming, Peace, Protection, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
+ There is no original truth, only original error. Author, June 14, 2023January 2, 2025, Gaston Bachelard, Error, Originality, Truth, 0 Gaston Bachelard Philosopher · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn’t bore. Jean Dubuffet Artist · France