Haruki Murakami Quotes

There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it.

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.

If I'm talking to you, I can't see you, but I can see inside of you and what you're thinking. That's a mixed blessing.

Comedy is the difference between how you see a person and how they see themselves.

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.

It's always refreshing to meet someone crazier than us," I said. "We seem so normal afterward.

You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.

What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous

Irony ... may be defined as what people miss.

When I said it aloud, it sounded terribly creepy, which is why I had said it aloud.

Knowledge is the barrier to knowing. When knowledge is dropped, knowing flowers.

I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me.

Beauty can never really understand itself.

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.