Belief Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“Religion has the same relation to man's heavenly condition that mathematics has to his earthly one: both the one and the other are merely the rules of the game. Belief in God and belief in numbers: local truth and truth of location.”

Vladimir Nabokov

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