The best anime quotes about philosophy.
“I would rather be a brainless monkey than a heartless monster. (To Frieza)”
“Time gives us happiness, but it can also take everything away from us.”
“Being thrown away by humans, devoted to them even though you aren't one of them... and once they are finished with you, they have you end your life yourself... and not even an ounce of gratitude for all that. On the contrary: for your whole life you are hated and reviled. It really is idiotic. We are a different species after all. Once you start seeing things that way, it all becomes very easy to accept. Do humans shed tears for the birds, pigs, cows and sheep that become their food? Of course they don't. They are a different species after all. That is nature. That is the truth. That is Providence. Your way of thinking up to now was the warped one.”
“There's only one certainty in life. A strong man stands above and conquers all!”
“No one can predict the future, so it's pointless to fear the unknown.”
“There stood a high school boy, who for selfish reasons had twice beaten an elementary school girl unconscious, and had gotten all nihistically worked up about it. Actually, that's still me.”
“*to Araragi* A creature like you having a brain residing in his skull...is already a miracle in and of itself.”
“If you use your head, you won't get fat even if you eat sweets.”
“The great flow that maintains the universe, call it the cycle of life, the course of nature each one of us is just a small part of that part. One in the all. Yet without all the individual ones, the all can't exist. This world flows by following grander laws that we can't even imagine. To recognize that flow, to work in it. To decompose, and recreate, that is alchemy.”
“Can it be that I'm afraid or is it merely I know not my own limit?”
“Those who make mistakes blame themselves and close their hearts. It's impossible to fix the mistake. Men can't return to the past. That's why they drink. Lushes, drunks, sliding alcohol down their throats to try to dilute the memories that can't be forgotten. Frank Marlon, the gunsmith, does nothing but drink, and questions the glass after it's empty. "Am I wrong? Was I wrong?"”
“No one's gonna save me. People just accept help selfishly, for their own sake.”
“The world is just another word for the things you value around you, right? That's something I've had since I was born. If you tell me to rule such a world, I already rule it.”
“Yes, the seats are limited. There are always fewer seats called "happiness" than there are people to fill them.”
“If we were all the way up there, no one here'd look any bigger than a grain of sand.”
“Love is all about who lands the first punch!”
