Quotes About Causes

science," for the Aristotelian, is an organized body of demonstrated truths concerning the things falling within some domain and their causes. Hence, not only physics, chemistry, biology, and the like, but also metaphysics, ethics, natural theology, and indeed the philosophy of nature itself (since, for the Aristotelian-Thomistic thinker, these fields of inquiry rest on rational arguments and analysis no less than physics, chemistry, etc. do) count as sciences.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

is probably as good a single explanation as any for the fall of both Greece and Rome.

The Exxon Valdez wreck, the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, and the nuclear accidents at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island all were at least partially caused by a lack of sleep.5

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

All of my causes, including the most radical, are motivated by the defense of animals.

Women are very comfortable giving to charities or things they believe in, but not as much political givers.

Basic insight regarding the nature of decadence: it's supposed causes are its consequences.

The same causes which tend to promote the belittling of men, also force the stronger and rarer individuals upwards to greatness.

It was likewise never doubted that all the antecedentia of an action, its causes, were to be sought in the consciousness and could be discovered there if one sought them – as 'motives': for otherwise one would not have been free to perform it, responsible for it.

After the Winter Olympics in 2006, I realized I had a platform to speak about causes that were important to me - and people would listen.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

Government officials and citizens care about many causes - and they all require resources. For example, I am personally passionate about ending the human trafficking that still occurs within our borders.

No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.

Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.

Your intentions are your nonphysical causes that set energy into motion. They create a multitude of effects and, therefore, determine the experiences of your life. This is one of the most important things that you can know. It is also something that you can see for yourself is true.

we were snares and enticements despite ourselves, we were the innocent and blameless causes that through our very nature could make men drunk with lust

It causes a jolt of terror to run through him, this absence of official time. Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.

I liked walking better, but a sense of reluctance to obtrude my presence on anyone who did not desire it, always kept me passive on these and similar occasions; and I never inquired into the causes of their varying whims.

The true crafty evil person is rare. It's bumbling that causes most of the misery of the world, utter stupid bumbling.

At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

Men seek the causes for death but no one seeks the Divine source of life.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.