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Quotes About Cause

You teach through being, through demonstrating the peace of God. You become the "light of the world," an emanation of pure consciousness, and so you eliminate suffering on the level of cause.
~ Eckhart Tolle
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, medical treatment is the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States.
~ Eckhart Tolle
A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect anywhere.
~ Edith Hamilton
Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.
~ Edmund Spenser
Sin can certainly be a cause of depression, but you must be careful about connecting the dots between the two. If you are being honest, you will always find sin in your life. Everyone does. That doesn't mean that sin caused your depression.
~ Edward T. Welch
The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.
~ Edward T. Welch
The motive of revenge is criminal if it creeps into the breast even in demanding the just punishment of a delinquent; much more if it push men to vindicate their own cause themselves by returning injury for injury, and wreaking wrongs on those that inflicted them.
~ Alban Butler
The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
~ Albert Einstein
In general, the trend of the evidence indicates that in land, just as in the human body, the symptoms may lie in one organ and the cause in another. The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.
~ Aldo Leopold
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
~ Aldous Huxley
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.
~ Aleister Crowley
Fue como darme un diploma de Neurótica honoris causa.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Digo que hay que mandar a Alix y a sus amigos y congéneres y a sus semejantes a que den su maldita sangre a favor de las injusticias que ellos causaron. No hablo de lo económico solamente, como podrías imaginar…
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
He drunkenly recognized that the lust was part of something bigger, of a craving to pursue pleasure unreasonably, beyond the right and wrong, to go as far as his body took him. In the body there is no absolute, or free, will, but the body is determined to desire this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
it. In the mind there is no free will, but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.
~ Aleksandar Hemon
Coloro i quali avevano impugnato così risolutamente, e così a lungo, che ci fosse vicino a loro, tra loro, un germe di male, che poteva, per mezzi naturali, propagarsi e fare una strage; non potendo ormai negare il propagamento di esso, e non volendo attribuirlo a que' mezzi (che sarebbe stato confessare a un tempo un grand'inganno e una gran colpa), erano tanto più disposti a trovarci qualche altra causa, a menar buona qualunque ne venisse messa in campo.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
states assume that anyone with a positive coronavirus test has died from the disease, no matter what their actual cause of death.
~ Alex Berenson
Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.
~ Alexander Pope
But my point is not just that the psychological theory is inadequate; it is that the practice is unproductive. If we do not address the ultimate cause of a problem, the problem will not get solved. This is not to say
~ Alfie Kohn
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
~ Elvis Presley
Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
~ Victor Webster
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
~ John Cleveland
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
~ Andrew Weil
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
~ Henri Poincare