The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity. Gaston Bachelard More Quotes by Gaston Bachelard More Quotes From Gaston Bachelard To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. Gaston Bachelard The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth. Gaston Bachelard hears subconscious truth listening