Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Truth
Gaston Bachelard was a French philosopher of science and imagination whose work spanned both rigorous epistemology and a phenomenology of poetic reverie. This page collects quotes attributed to Gaston Bachelard on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:
“Science is the empire of the new.”
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Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:
“There is no first knowledge; all knowledge is the result of struggle against earlier error.”
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Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:
“All that is decisive in the soul has its source in the imagination.”
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“True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”
Introduction