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Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Mind

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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:

    “The mind is essentially a factory of mistakes.”

  • Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:

    “All that is decisive in the soul has its source in the imagination.”

  • Attributed to Gaston Bachelard:

    “A house is the topography of our intimate being.”

  • “True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.”

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