Haruki Murakami Quotes

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

Haruki Murakami

• Desire
• Reason
• Imagine
• Human Soul
• Aristotle

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• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.

  

  Magdi Yacoub
  • Countries
  • Unacceptable

• I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Time
  • School
  • Old

• Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Good
  • Bad
  • You

• For all the drama we all have with our families and all the tension and hostility, I couldn't have done this without my family. Being the people that they are - they're crazy - made it possible for me to be crazy and to live a lifestyle of my own design.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

  

  Vance Packard
  • Man
  • Powerful
  • Creative

• When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Simple
  • Blame
  • Last

• Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Pretty
  • Win
  • Ugly

• The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Bad
  • Black

• The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • History
  • Political

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Death

• I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Movie

• I believe comedy is a really good lens to filter serious issues through. If people are laughing, they don't necessarily realize until they stop laughing that they just took something in that's going to start a conversation.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

  

  Carmen Kass
  • People
  • Hope

• If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

  

  John Charles Polanyi
  • People
  • Real
  • Experience

• It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.

  

  Joe Slovo

• In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting, and, alas! self-seeking me.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • World

• If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

  

  Marina Warner
  • People
  • Culture

• I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Up
  • Quiet
  • Woods

• Never believe that technology alone will allow America to prevail as a superpower.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • America
  • Alone

• There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Faith
  • Move
  • Mountains

• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Desire
  • Gay
  • Melancholy

• Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Desire
  • Reason
  • Imagine