Quote of the Day
Authors Categories Blog Quote Maker Videos
 

Gaston Bachelard Quotes: 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.
         

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
Check all other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.

Embed:

Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.





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.
         



Citation

Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:


Styles:

×

MLA Style Citation


"Gaston Bachelard Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Fri. 29 Mar. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/If-I-were-asked-to-name-the-323516>.




Tags



Check out


Other quotes of Gaston Bachelard


The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.



One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.



Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.



What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.



Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.



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

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




Our house is our corner of the world.

Our house is our corner of the world.



Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.



Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.

Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.





Other quotes you may like


The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God

The trouble was, love was such a strong emotion. It made everything else unimportant. It grabbed you and imprisoned you in the moment."Deathsworn Arc 4: The Temple of the Mad God



Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.



Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?

Why should i remember anything if i can just look it up?



If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.



To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.



You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.



Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.



When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang. "When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.

When are you going to trust me Max?" asked Fang. "When I go completely bonkers," I laughed.



After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.

After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought.



You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.




Quote Description


This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Gaston Bachelard. This quote is about home, dream, name,.