Quotes by Bachelard, Gaston

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaseles >>

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a l >>

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their sp >>

Quotations about Past

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or f >>

Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. >>

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influ >>

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.

Bachelard, Gaston