“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.”
More from Haruki Murakami on Philosophy
“I was the chain that bit into my ankle, and I was the ruthless guard that never slept.”
“In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.”
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing direction.”
“Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon.”
“Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself.”
“Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.”
“The silence is so deep it hurts our ears”
“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”
“At the same time that 'I' am the content of a relation, 'I' am also that which does the relating.”
“Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”