Quotes by Bachelard, Gaston

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language >>

I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a wor >>

The words of the world want to make sentences. >>

Quotations about Ideas

It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becom >>

Mere words are cheap and plenty enough, but ideas that rouse and set m >>

Ideas... they have the power >>

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

Bachelard, Gaston