Vladimir Nabokov Quote

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.


The Gift (ed. Penguin UK, 2012) - ISBN: 9780718192907


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...

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...

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...

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...