Accident Quotes

“A happy accident.”

“Chapter of accidents.”

“By many a happy accident.”

“The accident of an accident.”

“Moving accidents by flood and field.”

“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”

“The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.”

“I have shot mine arrow o'er the house
And hurt my brother.”

“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”

“Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws.”

“accident”

“ACCIDENT, n. An inevitable occurrence due to the action of immutable natural laws.”

“Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.”

“Wikipedia: Accident”

“At first laying down, as a fact fundamental,
That nothing with God can be accidental.”

“Was der Ameise Vernunft mühsam zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.”

“Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall—am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.”

“While this wasn’t the first accident involving a self-driving car, it was the first time the car was found to be at fault. Yes, the car was at fault.”

“History has a way of reducing individuals to flat, two-dimensional portraits. it is the enemy of subjectivity, which is why Stephen Dedalus called it "a nightmare from which I am trying to awake". If we think of Kierkegaard, of Nietzsche, of Hölderlin, we see them standing alone, outside of history. They are spotlighted by their intensity, and the background is all darkness. They intersect history, but are not a part of it. There is something anti-history about such men; they are not subject to time, accident and death, but their intensity is a protest against it. I have elsewhere called such men "Outsiders" because they attempt to stand outside history. which defines humanity on terms of limitation, not of possibility.”