Quote by Gaston Bachelard
One must always maintain ones connection to the past and yet cease

One must always maintain ones 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. – Gaston Bachelard

Other quotes by Gaston Bachelard

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

Category:
Ideas
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Past, the
category

Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten. – Proverb

Category:
Past, the

Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes. – Caleb Bingham

Category:
Past, the

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. – John Berger

Category:
Past, the

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past – Henri Frederic Amiel

Category:
Past, the

Random Quotes

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best. – Henry Rollins

Category:
best

Ive always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because Im a very physical person. Ive always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do. – Taylor Lautner

Category:
Sports

Theres no such thing as an actor giving positive criticism to a director. The minute you say Dont you think it would look nicer…, that directors going to hate your guts. Particularly if its a good idea. – Peter Mullan

Category:
positive

Its almost seems as though theres a battle going on between the public and all the fast-food establishments, and, believe me, I think its very tasty food. – Regis Philbin

Category:
Food