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Top 25 Sōseki Natsume Quotes (2024 Update)

Sōseki Natsume Quote: “I am a cat. As yet I have no name.”

1. “I am a cat. As yet I have no name.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it – people are hard to live with.”

2. “Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it – people are hard to live with.”

— Sōseki Natsume

Sōseki Natsume Quote: “On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.”

3. “On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”

4. “I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

5. “An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “The average novel invariably reads like a detective’s report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

6. “The average novel invariably reads like a detective’s report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Indeed, humans are the least reliable in this world.”

7. “Indeed, humans are the least reliable in this world.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourself longing to leave that world and dwell in some easier one- and then, when you understand at last the difficulties will dog you wherever you may live, this is when poetry and art are born...”

8. “And when its difficulties intensify, you find yourself longing to leave that world and dwell in some easier one- and then, when you understand at last the difficulties will dog you wherever you may live, this is when poetry and art are born...”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selves.”

9. “You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egoistical selves.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, “mankind abhors equality.””

10. “From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, “mankind abhors equality.””

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”

11. “Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.”

12. “London is a city that offers all kinds of temptations, and whenever I go for a walk I discover things that I would like to bring back as souvenirs. But my resources are very limited. I cannot buy anything, and I make a point of taking my walks a good distance from these riches.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.”

13. “We who are born into this age of freedom and independence and the self must undergo this loneliness. It is the price we pay for these times of ours.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Who are we to judge the needs of another man’s heart?”

14. “Who are we to judge the needs of another man’s heart?”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”

15. “You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don’t ever surrender yourself- not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you’re doing is for the sake of the nation, but let something take possession of you like that, and all you do is bring it down.”

16. “Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don’t ever surrender yourself- not to Japan, not to anything. You may think that what you’re doing is for the sake of the nation, but let something take possession of you like that, and all you do is bring it down.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.”

17. “Until then I had floated at random, like a rootless aquatic plant, relying entirely on the opinions of others.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m less inclined to force myself to read books. In short, I have grown old and decrepit.”

18. “To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I’m less inclined to force myself to read books. In short, I have grown old and decrepit.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people are strangely difficult to make sense out of. Even a god would have his hands full trying. But maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, presuming that other people are a mess just because I’m put together in such a disorderly way. If so, I should apologize.”

19. “In fact, there is no such thing as character, something fixed and final. The real thing is something that novelists don’t know how to write about. Or, if they tried, the end result would never be a novel. Real people are strangely difficult to make sense out of. Even a god would have his hands full trying. But maybe I’m jumping to conclusions, presuming that other people are a mess just because I’m put together in such a disorderly way. If so, I should apologize.”

— Sōseki Natsume

Sōseki Natsume Quote: “I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than those words which express thoughts rationally conceived.”

20. “I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than those words which express thoughts rationally conceived.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “When they encounter somebody who’s honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he’s nothing but a kid, a botchan.”

21. “When they encounter somebody who’s honest and pure-hearted, they look down on him and say he’s nothing but a kid, a botchan.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “What would you do,” I said, “if I pushed you into the sea?” K did not move. Without looking back, he said: “That would be pleasant. Please do.”

22. “What would you do,” I said, “if I pushed you into the sea?” K did not move. Without looking back, he said: “That would be pleasant. Please do.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “It is a much wiser policy to plant acre after acre of orchids and lead one’s life in solitude encompassed by their sheltering stems, than to surround oneself with the hoi-polloi and so court the same pointless misanthropic disgust as befell Timon of Athens.”

23. “It is a much wiser policy to plant acre after acre of orchids and lead one’s life in solitude encompassed by their sheltering stems, than to surround oneself with the hoi-polloi and so court the same pointless misanthropic disgust as befell Timon of Athens.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.”

24. “The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “If he let one day pass without glancing at a single page, habit led him to feel a vague sense of decay. Therefore, in the face of most intrusions, he tried to arrange it so that he could stay in touch with the printed word. There were moments when he felt that books constituted his only legitimate province.”

25. “If he let one day pass without glancing at a single page, habit led him to feel a vague sense of decay. Therefore, in the face of most intrusions, he tried to arrange it so that he could stay in touch with the printed word. There were moments when he felt that books constituted his only legitimate province.”

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Sōseki Natsume Quote: “Pickles taste awful, but to broaden my experience I once tried a couple of slices of pickled radish. It‘s a strange thing but once I‘ve tried it, almost anything turns out edible.”

26. “Pickles taste awful, but to broaden my experience I once tried a couple of slices of pickled radish. It‘s a strange thing but once I‘ve tried it, almost anything turns out edible.”

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