Gaston Bachelard

Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher. He made contributions in the fields of poetics and the philosophy of science. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break.

He influenced many subsequent French philosophers, among them Michel Foucault, Louis Althusser, Dominique Le court and Jacques Derrida, as well as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu.

Date of birth:
27th June, 1884
Date of death:
16th October, 1962
"Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Poetry
"The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Morning
"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Imagination
"If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Home
"The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Dreams
"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
― Gaston Bachelard
Topic(s): Beauty

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