Haruki Murakami Quotes

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other-which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of the dog.

Things just always seem to lead to the logical next step.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Things always happen in series.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Study carefully the law of cause and effect.

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

We need to have an understanding of what causes what to happen in the world, and why.

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

They sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.

Sometimes we look at patterns, and we look at things that are happening, and sometimes you can't dismiss everything as a conspiracy.