Gaston Bachelard

1884–1962 · French writer and philosopher

Topics: learning, creativity

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

  — 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.

  — Gaston Bachelard