Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Between the subject and the object lies the value.

All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it is pre-occupied. But the mode of approach to the object to be known is dependent upon the nature of the knower.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice.

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.

I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.

The legitimacy of the West is contested by the very skepticism it holds so dear.

I don't like to put labels on anyone. I'm a reporter. I'd rather observe and describe and question.

Analysts have forgotten how to analyze business and they have forgotten how to be objective about them.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not.

I've also never had favorite pictures. Or subjects. I have this discipline of treating everything equally-I used to say "democratically."

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.

An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

I had the attitude that I would work with this present-day material and do the best I could to describe it with photography, not intending to make any particular comment about whether it was good or bad or whether I liked it or not. It was just there, and I was interested in it. That's what I still do today.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

Theology is a subject without an object

Love does not analyze its object.

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.