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Quotes About Cause

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
~ Schopenhauer
Success caused passion more than passion caused success.
~ Scott Adams
After the play, he counts on playing cards, and he on a wild night in some girl's arms - why, in a cause like this, must you poor fools so sorely try the Muses' kindness
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You only keep a watch on those who cause you suffering. If you want to remain unknown to the world, all that's needed is not to hurt anyone.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To my mind, if the cosmos does not know the significance of life, then it is not God; and if there were no God beyond the cosmos, then all human history would be like dancing to the blind and singing to the deaf; and all noble thought and action would be like kissing a cold statue. I believed in a personal God, not because I wanted to project my personality upon God, but because to deprive Him of this attribute would be making the effect greater than the cause.
~ John C.H. Wu
Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.
~ John Calvin
By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.
~ John Calvin
God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it. But
~ John Calvin
The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities—a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.
~ John D. Rockefeller
The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armour of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error." -John Dos Passos
~ John Dos Passos
As long as there are people who are not happy with their lot in life, as long as the United States is perceived to somehow be the cause of this unhappiness, there will be terrorism.
~ Cofer Black
The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.
~ Peter Garrett
Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Action and reaction are equal and opposite, and are expressed simultaneously. Sequentially they are repeated in reverse, the reaction becoming the action and the action the reaction.
~ Walter Russell
The motive power is the cause of all life.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.
~ Aeriel Miranda
I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.
~ Alex Campbell
I once believed in causes, too. Had my pointless point of view. Life went on no matter who was wrong or right.
~ Billy Joel
uncaused cause, or to use Aristotle's famous expression, an Unmoved
~ Edward Feser
a distinction between events to motivate the claim that cause and effect might come apart.
~ Edward Feser
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy
the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.
~ Edward Kennedy
The 2008 collapse in housing prices had the same cause: unlimited unsound loans to create highly leveraged borrowers.
~ Edward O. Thorp