The best anime quotes about philosophy.
“...Yes, the desire to protect something... is, at the same time, none other than the wish for something to violate it.”
“That's right! I admired his desire to save people because it was beautiful! But none of that feeling is my own! What else can you call it but hypocrisy?! I was driven by my obsessive need to help someone. I kept running, neither noticing the pain nor how wrong I was! But it's all a fake. Such hypocrisy can not save anything. No, first of all, I didn't even know what I wanted to save!”
“Yes, the seats are limited. There are always fewer seats called "happiness" than there are people to fill them.”
“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.”
“The past is the past. We cannot indulge ourselves in memories and destroy the present.”
“Love is all about who lands the first punch!”
“Fortunately, I do not have any pride. But what about it? Will the name of the hero be disgraced? Hah, don't make me laugh, Lancer. You can wash away disgrace with results. You can feed your meaningless pride to the dogs.”
“But that's enough. If there is overwhelming power and speed, there is no room for technique. Techniques are something humans invented to compensate for their weaknesses.”
“Defying me till the very end, huh? But I'll forgive you. Some things are beautiful exactly because they are unobtainable.”
“I have my own method of bending spoons. (bends the spoon with his hands) Ha! Muscle over mind!”
“Saving someone means not saving someone else.”
“If we were all the way up there, no one here'd look any bigger than a grain of sand.”
“Flowers are fragile and ephemeral... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. Are you fully aware of that, Kudo-kun?..”
“Rely on impulse and not even your thoughts can betray you.”
“Kurama, there is no person who does not carry scars upon their heart, and if there were such a man, they would be a shallow soul.”
