Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Vladimir Nabokov

“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“What surprises you in life? The marvel of consciousness -- that sudden window swinging open on a sunlit landscape amidst the night…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“We live in a stocking which is in the process of being turned inside out, without our ever knowing for sure to…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“...if one were quite sincere with oneself, no conscience, and hence no consciousness, could be expected to subsist in a world where…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Do all people have that? A face, a phrase, a landscape, an air bubble from the past suddenly floating up as if…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“After all, in order to live happily, a man must know now and then a few moments of perfect blankness. Yet I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“You see, we find comfort in telling ourselves that the world could not exist without us, that it exists only inasmuch as…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Vivian Bloodmark, a philosophical friend of mine, in later years, used to say that while the scientist sees everything that happens in…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of information; and as specialization.…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The kind of poem I produced in those days was hardly anything more than a sign I made of being alive, of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“And what agony, thought Krug the thinker, to love so madly a little creature, formed in some mysterious fashion (even more mysterious…

— Vladimir Nabokov