Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Marcel Proust

“Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman’s…

— Marcel Proust

“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit”

— Marcel Proust

“...the sleep which lay heavy upon the furniture, the room, the whole surroundings of which I formed but an insignificant pat and…

— Marcel Proust

Knowing does not always allow us to prevent, but at least the things that we know, we hold them, if not in…

— Marcel Proust

To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some…

— Marcel Proust

“I lost all sense of the place in which I had gone to sleep, and when I awoke at midnight, not knowing…

— Marcel Proust

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last…

— Marcel Proust

“Knowledge of the thing cannot impede it; but at least we have the things we discover, if not in our hands, at…

— Marcel Proust

“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us?…

— Marcel Proust

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which…

— Marcel Proust

In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which…

— Marcel Proust

“The hedge allowed us a glimpse, inside the park, of an alley bordered with jasmine, pansies, and verbenas, among which the stocks…

— Marcel Proust

These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort…

— Marcel Proust

“Faced with the thoughts, the actions of a woman whom we love, we are as completely at a loss as the world's…

— Marcel Proust

It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event…

— Marcel Proust

“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything,…

— Marcel Proust

“When I saw any external object, my consciousness that I was seeing it would remain between me and it, enclosing it in…

— Marcel Proust

“Then it would begin to seem unintelligible, as the thoughts of a former existence must be to a reincarnate spirit; the subject…

— Marcel Proust

“But then, even in the most significant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material…

— Marcel Proust

“As for me, I feel myself living and thinking in a room where everything is the creation and the language of lives…

— Marcel Proust

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial…

— Marcel Proust

“We never see the people who are dear to us save in the animated system, the perpetual motion of our incessant love…

— Marcel Proust

“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot…

— Marcel Proust

The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given…

— Marcel Proust

“For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would…

— Marcel Proust