“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.” WorldLifeChildrenEventsMinorsWorld Events Author:Gaston Bachelard
“We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” WorldRealHomeDreamValuesLostMemoriesEmotionPoetExpressionComfortOriginalsAddLeavingProtectionStoresHistorianOur MemoriesOutside World Author:Gaston Bachelard
“When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldChildrenShowsLostLosesSeeingAdultsPhilosophicalProfound Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.” World Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.” WorldBearsMarkInfinityDreamerDaydreamingTransport Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.” WorldLifeHelpingLastsChildhoodPoetReturnAdultsPermanentBroadsSections Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Our house is our corner of the world.” WorldHouseCornersCorners Of The World Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.” KnowsMenWorldFeelsHumansChildrenPeaceChildhoodSonSolitudeRelaxCosmosUnhappinessAche Author:Gaston Bachelard
“By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.” WorldChildrenDreamCertainSeaListeningDreamer Author:Gaston Bachelard
“A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.” IfsMenWorldWantWellsPlayDreamWould BeBeautifulTurnsUniverseDestinyHe ManPoeticDreamerReposeReverieGrandioseAccentuate Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.” WorldStatesHelpingTimeSocietyProjectsStabilityCosmicTranquilityReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.” WorldDoeRealTimeForceMemoriesFunctionFlightConsistentReal WorldPsychicsRelaxedUnrealReverieInattentionDetenteUnreal World Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Thanks to his complex convictions, made strong with the forces of animus and anima, the alchemist believes he is seizing the soul of the world, participating in the soul of the world. Thus, from the world to the man, alchemy is a problem of souls.” MenWorldBelieveMadeSoulProblemStrongForceHe ManComplexesConvictionThanksAlchemyParticipatingAlchemistSeizingAnimus Author:Gaston Bachelard
“Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.” WorldImaginationFunctionThanksSubtletyReverie Author:Gaston Bachelard
“The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established between reverie and experiment. The exaltation of the names of substances is the preamble to experiments on the "exalted" substances.” WorldTryingNamesPsychologyExperimentsSubstanceVocabularyExaltedAlchemistExteriorExaltationReveriePreamble Author:Gaston Bachelard
