The best anime quotes about philosophy.
“Sometimes feelings get tangled together with deductions, forming a veil that hides the truth.”
“Humans can’t reverse the flow of time. If you try to twist it against its will… You’ll be punished.”
“The day before yesterday, I saw a rabbit. Yesterday, it was a deer. And today, it’s you.”
“Nothing can stay unchanged. Fun things… Happy things… They can’t possibly remain the same.”
“Everybody has to display a certain loyalty to their paycheck. I was the same way. It isn’t just a piece of paper, but a chain that binds people.”
“Regardless of the color of eyes or skin, the color of blood is the same for everyone, isn’t it?”
“"Those who believe will be saved". It's just that I wanted to find out whether you'll be saved if you believed. If such a thing were true, I feel like I can change myself too.”
“Humans always pursue things they can’t reach. Doesn’t it single-heartedly symbolize such yearnings?”
“While many can pursue their dreams in solitude, other dreams are like great storms blowing hundreds, even thousands of dreams apart in their wake. Dreams breathe life into men and can cage them in suffering. Men live and die by their dreams. But long after they have been abandoned they still smolder deep in men's hearts. Some see nothing more than life and death. They are dead, for they have no dreams.”
“Dreams. Each man longs to pursue his dream. Each man is tortured by this dream, but the dream gives meaning to his life. Even if the dream ruins his life, man cannot allow himself to leave it behind. In this world, is man ever able to possess anything more solid, than a dream?”
“Providence may guide a man to meet one specific person, even if such guidance eventually leads him to darkness. Man simply cannot forsake the beauty of his own chosen path. When will man learn a way to control his soul?”
“What are humans’ desires? What I think the most troublesome desire is the desire for attention. It’s the source of jealousy and relationship problems, too.”
“So how long will it be, then? How long before you're no longer cursed to walk the earth...?”
“It’s the most powerful words in the world. No just argument or eloquence can stand a chance against it. It’s… ”So what?””
“I think that no one wants to see others' sins.”
“Anyone can say that he likes himself best. When you say that you like someone, you just end up liking yourself in the moment of being with that person, right?”
“I think that what people who've committed crimes need isn't punishment, but rather the knowledge of the pain of being forgiven.”
“What takes reason a hundred years to build a bridge to only takes the wings of faith a single night to reach.”
“Lies are like colours. The more you pile up, the blacker things get.”
