Quotes About Causes

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.

Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes — good will among men and peace on earth.

You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.

Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens.

Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.

that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.

First I will unfold the causes that led to the foundation of the New Plymouth Settlement, and the motives of those concerned in it. In order that I may give an accurate account of the project, I must begin at the very root and rise of it; and this I shall endeavour to do in a plain style and with singular regard to the truth, — at least as near as my slender judgment can attain to it.

If you just go around and identify all of the disasters and say, 'What caused that?' and try to avoid it, it turns out to be a very simple way to find opportunities and avoid troubles.

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience.

If "final causes" means purposes, or purposive activities, then Darwinism not only does not "expel" them: it builds them into the very foundation of its explanation of evolution. Even

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls.

God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

The way you feel about giving money to good causes has a lot to do with the way you feel about money.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.