Haruki Murakami Quotes

It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

To live is to think.

The actuality of thought is life.

As long as I am thinking, I am alive.

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

That in the soul which is called the mind is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing.

The mind is constantly involved in thinking, in judging, in evaluating. Its whole function seems to be to keep you involved in thoughts, which are nothing but soap bubbles - or perhaps soap bubbles have more substance to them than your thoughts.

I'm constantly thinking.

At times I think and at times I am.

My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Is it not the play of the mind we are after? Is it not that that shows a mind is there at all?

Every thought is an afterthought.

To think is an act. To feel is a fact.

Thought is the measure of life.

Sometimes I think, sometimes I am .

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Watch the things you say you can't believe, and then recall the things you accept without thinking, like your own existence.

When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.

Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.