02UndatedReveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him." - Gaston Bachelard, "Reveries on Reverie (Anima - Animus)", The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, Page 88Gaston Bachelard / quote ↗
03UndatedContemplating a flame perpetuates a primordial reverie. It separates us from the world and enlarges our world as dreamers. In itself the flame is a major presence, but being close to it makes us dream of far away, too far away. The flame is there, feeble and tiny, struggling to stay in existence, and the dreamer goes on to dream of elsewhere, losing his own being by dreaming on a grand, on a too grand scale by dreaming of the world.Gaston Bachelard / quote ↗
04UndatedSo like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.Gaston Bachelard / quote ↗
05UndatedThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.Gaston Bachelard / quote ↗
06UndatedThe 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 / quote ↗
08UndatedA special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.Gaston Bachelard / quote ↗
09UndatedIf 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 / quote ↗
