Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Marcel Proust

25 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Marcel Proust

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

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

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

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

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

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

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To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire and love give us the strength to make this effort. The only books that we truly absorb are those we read with real appetite,…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion,…

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

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“The hedge allowed us a glimpse, inside the park, of an alley bordered with jasmine, pansies, and verbenas, among which the stocks held open their fresh plump purses, of a pink as fragrant and as faded as old Spanish leather, while on the gravel-path a long watering-pipe, painted green, coiling across the ground, poured, where its holes were, over the…

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“The differences which exist between every one of our real impressions -- differences which explain why a uniform depiction of life cannot bear much resemblance to the reality -- derive probably from the following cause: the slightest word that we have said, the most insignificant action that we have performed at anyone epoch of our life was surrounded by, and…

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

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

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“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial sections, things, that is, which the spirit can assimilate to itself. After which it matters not that the actions, the feelings of this new order of creatures appear to us in the guise of truth, since we have…

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

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

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

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...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering…

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“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, hidden by a cloak of oblivion,…

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“Art extracted from the most familiar reality does indeed exist and its domain is perhaps the largest of any.”

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I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an animal, aplant, an inanimate object, indeed lost to us until the day, which for some never arrives, when we find that we pass near the tree, or come to possess the object which is their prison. Then they…

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