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    Gaston Bachelard

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


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #hears #listening #murmuring #murmurs #subconscious

    The words of the world want to make sentences. ↗


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #sentences #want #words #world

    One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. ↗


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #away #ceaselessly #connection #maintain #must

    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

    #future #image #language #newness #opens

    Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ↗


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #hour #knows #mind #plenitude #rather

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


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #always #childhood #fire #flare #forgotten

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


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #dreams #function #give #great #our

    Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ↗


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #make #never #philosophers #probably #two

    Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗


    — Gaston Bachelard

    #books #imagination #literary #lover #object

    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

    #allows #asked #benefit #chief #dream






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    (Le nouvel esprit scientifique)
    Dialectic of Duration. He compared "scientific knowledge" to ordinary knowledge in the way we deal with it and saw error as only illusion: "Scientifically we think the truth as the historical rectification of a long error and we think experience as the rectification of the common and original illusion (illusion première). The role of epistemology in science
    Bachelard was a rationalist in the Cartesian sense although he recommended his "non-Cartesian epistemology" as a replacement for the more standard Cartesian epistemology.

    He rose to some of the most prestigious positions in the Académie française and influenced many subsequent French philosophers among them Michel Foucault Louis Althusser Dominique Lecourt and Jacques Derrida. To the latter he introduced the concepts of epistemological obstacle and epistemological break (obstacle épistémologique et rupture épistémologique).

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