All HARUKI MURAKAMI Quotes about “Consciousness”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”
“That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.”
“The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.”
“Well, think of what Iâ€™m doing to you right now. For me Iâ€™m the self, and youâ€™re the object. For you, of course, itâ€™s the exact oppositeâ€”youâ€™re the self to you and Iâ€™m the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.â€ â€œI still donâ€™t get it, but it sure feels good.â€ â€œThatâ€™s the whole idea,â€ the girl said.”
“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.”
“Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.”
“Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyoneâ€™s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn thereâ€™s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.”
“In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.”
“Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.”

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