Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Love
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 love, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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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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Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:
“A house is the topography of our intimate being.”
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“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire(1988) | A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books -
“One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.”
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire(1988) | A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books