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“Whatever you value... What you consider right is up to you. But don't force those ideals onto other people.”
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The best anime quotes about philosophy.
“Whatever you value... What you consider right is up to you. But don't force those ideals onto other people.”
“I think society where people prefer earning to spending is a healthier one.”
“The past is just the past. There's no inherent value in getting over it or catching up to it.”
“Human emotions are ambiguous. A person can have contradicting feelings. I know how they are capable of creating lies and pain when reflected in the real world. That's why we have words. Words are brutally precise. They give form to feelings while mercilessly killing anything left unsaid.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A detective must become nothing more than an advocate. We must never put words to the feelings that failed to take form.”
“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.”
“Just as there isn't a problem that can't be solved by being right, there isn't a problem that can't be solved by money.”
“Everyone is sacrificing something precious to them in order to save something else. Is that the reason for human action?”
“NEETs aren't people who can't do or won't do things. The only difference is the rules. Because we're playing with different rules, we're forced to do things differently. The participants are disoriented. They frown. Then they are discouraged by labeling and stereotyping and find comfort in isolation.”
“I find it fascinating how we can see something with our eyes, hear with our ears and speak from our mouths. Although science tells us how they work, I just really can't grasp it. I don't know how everyday items like phones work. I can't even explain why a bicycle is fast. When I think like this, I wonder how many things I really understand. Yet I can live on. Because all these mysteries have joined together to keep me alive. Sometimes I admire that before I go to bed.”
“What is eternal? ...Eternal life. Eternal love. Eternal flow of time. Instinctively, they all seem wonderful, but in reality, they are also cruel.”
“Battles aren't supposed to be heroic affairs. They are not supposed to be fun or exciting, to us every battle is filled with despair, they are dark, horrifying, grizzly. We should fear warfare, avoid it always and whenever possible choose the path of peace.”
“Different conclusions are reached when one fact is viewed from two separate points of view. When that happens, there is no immediate way to judge which point of view is the correct one. There is no way to conclude one's own conclusion is the correct one. But for that exact reason, it is also premature to decide one's own conclusion is wrong.”
“If you don't trust the boy who cries wolf - in other words, a child who lies, your sheep and goats will all get eaten. But who gives a damn about moral lectures. The important part is that because the boy believed in his lies, he really brought a wolf to the village. You can't deny that! *to Niwa Makoto*”
“For questions where your chance of being correct is 50/50, it's best to go with your gut response.”
“There are only two professions in the whole world that give meaning to those who have died and what have been lost... They're writers and detectives. Writers are the only ones able to revive what was lost through their visions. Detectives are the only ones able to dig up the grave and bring back lost information. But the information us detectives dig up is nothing more than the truth as recorded in Heaven's Memo Pad.”
