Gaston Bachelard

“The house is one of the greatest powers of integration for the thoughts, memories and dreams of mankind.”

“Consciousness is not a property of matter, and it cannot be detected in the laboratory.”

“Imagination is not, as its etymology would suggest, the faculty of forming images of reality; it is rather the faculty of forming images which go beyond reality, which sing reality.”

“A word is a bud attempting to become a twig.”

“The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche.”

“Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.”

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

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.”

“One must be dialectical and accept the universal law of contradiction.”

“Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.”