Ghost in the Shell quotes

There are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality. Sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny. Each of those things are just a small part of it. I collect information to use in my own way. All of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my conscience.

Who can gaze into the mirror without becoming evil? The mirror does not reflect evil, but creates it.

If a technological feat is possible, man will do it. Almost as if it’s wired into the core of our being.

I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries.

If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation. What's true for the group is also true for the individual. It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.

Life perpetuates itself through diversity, and this includes the ability to sacrifice itself when necessary. Cells repeat the process of degeneration and regeneration until one day they die, obliterating an entire set of memory and information. Only genes remain. Why continually repeat this cycle? Simply to survive by avoiding the weaknesses of an unchanging system.

And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?

All things change in a dynamic environment. Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

Life is like a node which is born within the flow of information. As a species of life that carries DNA as its memory system... man gains his individuality from the memories he carries. While memories may as well be the same as fantasy... it is by these memories that mankind exists.

Just like wine, some human relationships need time to mature.

There has never been a report about a stomach ache or any other related medical trauma from swallowing your pride.

I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it.

That's all it is: information. Even a simulated experience or a dream; simultaneous reality and fantasy. Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket.

Just as water runs downhill, the human heart also tends to revert to its basest instincts.

It's not like I had aspirations to be a hero or anything. However, I'm positive we followed a code of justice that all of us believed in without condition or compromise.