Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Haruki Murakami

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

— Haruki Murakami

Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.

— Haruki Murakami

“I shake my head, turn from the window, clear my mind of thoughts of a hundred years away.”

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Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

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Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in…

— Haruki Murakami

“I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just…

— Haruki Murakami

“Aomame tried her best to keep her mind clear of any thoughts, but it was impossible not to think of anything. Nature…

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“There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.”

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“Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm…

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“To think that each skull once had skin and flesh and was stuffed with gray matter—in varying quantities—teeming with thoughts of food…

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“When I am running my mind empties itself. Everything I think while running is subordinate to the process. The thoughts that impose…

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Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly…

— Haruki Murakami

“I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze,…

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The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come…

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“I turn a corner," I offered, "just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner. I can't see what that person…

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Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping…

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Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just…

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In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a…

— Haruki Murakami

“When you see runners in town, it's easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time.…

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“Lying there, I close my eyes for a time, then open them. I silently breathe in, then out. A thought begins to…

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“Time. Particles of darkness configured mysterious patterns on my retina. Patterns that degenerated without a sound, only to be replaced by new…

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On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked…

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Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of…

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“How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost." "That's not true. You are not…

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“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the…

— Haruki Murakami

“To fill in the silence Tsukuru lowered the needle onto the record again, went back to the sofa, and settled in to…

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“I just run. I run in a void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to…

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“I’m not a human. I’m a piece of machinery. I don’t need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead. That’s what…

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“The mind is strong. It survives, even without thought. Even with everything taken away, it holds a seed—your self.”

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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of…

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They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away,…

— Haruki Murakami