Immanuel Kant Quotes

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

Gilles Deleuze believed that every society needed a madman so we could feel better about ourselves. I do my best to fill that role.

There are no inevitabilities in history

Everything in life that deviates from the straight and, so to speak, normal line, makes people first curious and then indignant.

The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino community, when you see a Latino going down the street with a baby carriage and a couple of children walking beside them, they should say 'Hey, there goes my social security and my Medicare.' Those are the people that are going to contribute to keep our social security system funded and our medical system funded.

Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

I've always found women more interesting than men.

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by "thou shalt not", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by "love" or "reason", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.