Gaston Bachelard Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Home

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Memories, Simple, Names

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.35, Penguin

• Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Late in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done: we are going to build a house. This dream house may be merely a dream of ownership, the embodiment of everything that is considered convenient, comfortable, healthy, sound, desirable, by other people. It must therefore satisfy both pride and reason, two irreconcilable terms.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Home, Pride

  "La Poétique de l'Espace (The Poetics of Space)". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

• Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, Imagination, House

  "'Large White House Speaking' by Mark Irwin" reviewed by Alexis Orgera, therumpus.net. April 23, 2014.

• The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Owning A Home, House

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin

• Our house is our corner of the world.

  Gaston Bachelard

  House, World, Corners

• A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Space, House, Boxes

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.55, Penguin

• To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, House, Steps

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

• One must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

  Gaston Bachelard

  House

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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