#Philosophy

“The past is just the past. There's no inherent value in getting over it or catching up to it.”

“Everyone is sacrificing something precious to them in order to save something else. Is that the reason for human action?”

“The world... is a very small place, but... for those who know it, it is very, very large. And the world... when it is viewed by those who know... is far larger than just one world can hold.”

“I'm an arms dealer anyway. There's no point in fearing what I sell.”

“A detective must become nothing more than an advocate. We must never put words to the feelings that failed to take form.”

“For everything you wish, you have to pay an equal price in return. You can't get more or give more. You can't get less or give less. It must be in balance, or else there will be chaos.”

“The crowd of people looks just like pixels in a picture to me. A single pixel is meaningless. But add two, three and four... They pile up rapidly until they ultimately form a picture. But I've never seen that picture.”

“There are three kinds of secrets. Something that you hide at the bottom of your heart because you don't want it to be mentioned. Something that you can't say even if you want to and something that you hope someone asks about even though you're hiding it.”

“Whatever happens, happens.”

“Something as useless as emotions, I never had them to begin with.”

“I think people should try to ignore their race, and just treat each other as equals.”

“I thought that everyone in Japan had to be packed in there. So I turned to my dad and asked him,"Do you know how many people are here right now"? He said probably fifty thousand, since the stadium was full. I was only one little person in that big crowded stadium filled with people, and there were so many people there, but it was just a handful out of the entire population. Up till then, I always thought that I was, I don't know, kind of a special person. It was fun to be with my family. I had fun with my classmates. And the school that I was going to, it had just about the most interesting people anywhere. But that night, I realized it wasn't true. All the stuff we did during class that I thought was so fun and cool, was probably happening just like that in classes in other schools all over Japan. There was nothing special about my school at all.”

“But its power goes beyond what is necessary... Does one really need the power to destroy everything?”

“Even if the truth is as one suspects, it may still be worthless.”

“Sincerity with respect to yourself! No matter what your objective... no matter who you are... if you are going to do something or not do something, that is a promise to yourself. And the one who keeps the promise, or breaks the promise, is you. No one else can be burdened with holding you to a promise that's made to yourself.”

“Alcohol is humanity's friend. How can I abandon a friend?”