Home » Quote » Vladimir Nabokov » „We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.“ „We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.“ — Vladimir Nabokov Tags:World Related quotes „Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.“ — Arundhati Roy „That the truest experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.“ — Paulo Coelho „For me it is not dubious that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree unconsciously. For how, otherwise, should it happen that sometimes we "wonder" quite spontaneously about some experience? This "wondering" seems to occur when an experience comes into conflict with a world of concepts which is already sufficiently fixed in us. Whenever such a conflict is experienced hard and intensively it reacts back upon our thought world in a decisive way. The development of this thought world is in a certain sense a continuous flight from "wonder."“ — Albert Einstein „To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.“ — Henry Miller „I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald „All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.“ — Anaïs Nin „This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it.“ — Ernest Hemingway „Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?“ — Jiddu Krishnamurti
„We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.“ — Vladimir Nabokov Tags:World