5 Gaston Bachelard Quotes on Life

Gaston Bachelard quotes on life

2. To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

8. The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

17. Man is an imagining being.

19. To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

21. 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.