“The blank page gives us the right to dream.” GivingDreamPagesBlankBlank Pages Author:Gaston Bachelard
“I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.” GivingDreamWould BeSolitudeLive ByDreamerSummitSplitting Author:Gaston Bachelard
“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.” GivingWritingDreamPagesPensBlankAttemptingBudReverieBlank PagesTwigs Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.” IfsGivingShouldWould BeTurnsCoursesHouseNamesBitsMemoriesSimpleAttentionStudyOur LivesPsychologicalThanksIntimateRefugeSiteOur MemoriesDaydreamingSystematicCorridorsCellars Book:The Poetics of Space Source: The Poetics of Space
“Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the experimental: Experimentation must give way to argument, and argument must have recourse to experimentation.” WayGivingMatterScienceArgumentCrossesNo Matter WhatBoundariesExperimentsConvincingTheoreticalDepartureExperimentationRecourse Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.” GivingDreamPoetrySituationFunctionPoetry IsOur DreamsGiving Back Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.” GivingLittlesImpressionIronyExpensesPsychologist Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will encounter nothing but disappointments if he intends to make them cooperate. The image can not provide matter for a concept. By giving stability to the image, the concept would stifle its life.” IfsGivingIdeasMatterImaginationCasesActivityConceptsDisappointmentEncountersStabilityGood IdeasCan NotImaginativeRivalry Author:Gaston Bachelard
