Quotes About Cause

A canoe paddle is animate, because it causes something else to move. Even a humble onion has, in their view, a soul, since it causes action—pulling tears from the eyes.

Just as the ripples of a stone thrown into a pond will spread further and further away from the source, so the ripples of the disaster in 1948 hit my parents first and then spread to us and to our children long afterwards. Seeing only the ripples, it was easy to confuse the original cause with its effects.

Nor could it be maintained that the agent himself can know that any overt action of his own is the effect of a given volition.

The connection between volitions and movements is allowed to be mysterious, so, for all he knows, his volition may have had some other movement as its effect and the pulling of the trigger may have had some other event for its cause.

It is a mystery not of the unsolved but soluble type, like the problem of the cause of cancer, but of quite another type.

We ourselves are proposing a compression over many singularities of human performance, seeing all of them as effects of a single cause, double-scope blending. We do not, however, use Cause-Effect Isomorphism compression: According to our proposal, the cause was gradual, continuous, and cognitive, while the effects were singular, quick, and social.

Theophilo. To come then to the discovery of that which we seek. I say that if in the first efficient Cause there be infinite power, there is also action from which there resulteth a universe of infinite size and worlds infinite in number.

In the Second Part of this Dialogue, that which hath already been shewn concerning the passive power of the universe is demonstrated for the active power of the efficient cause, set forth with arguments of which the first deriveth from the fact that divine power should not be otiose; particularly positing the effect thereof outside the substance thereof (if indeed aught can be outside it), and that it is no less otiose and invidious if it produce a finite effect than if it produce none.

Da un sacco di tempo tutti si affannano a cercare di capire il motivo della loro estinzione. Si chiedono perché questi animali che dominavano il mondo di colpo siano scomparsi. Forse fra tutte le spiegazioni la più valida è anche la più semplice. Forse sono morti perché sono impazziti tutti quanti. Proprio come noi. Ecco cosa siamo, nient'altro che dei piccoli dinosauri. E la nostra pazzia prima o poi sarà la causa della nostra fine.

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

It did not mean that the explanation was always immediately available. But nothing happened without a reason; particularly as far as the actions of the higher mammals were concerned. There had to be a cause for every action. That

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause.

People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.

History is not a series of causeless consequences. Event follows event in time, as minute follows minute in the day.

Bir ?eyin neden oldu?u konusuna asla kafa yormad?. Nas?l oldu?u, ona yeterdi.

You can't separate the means from the cause, Brigitta. In theory, perhaps, but not in practice. We are dealing in realities here.

Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

if he will watch, control, and alter his thoughts, tracing their effects upon himself, upon others, and upon his life and circumstances, linking cause and effect by patient practice and investigation, and utilizing his every experience, even to the most trivial, everyday occurrence, as a means of obtaining that knowledge of himself which is Understanding, Wisdom, Power.

considerable portion of the happenings of life comes to us without any direct choosing on our part, and such happenings are generally regarded as having no relation to our will or character, but as appearing fortuitously; as occurring without a cause. Thus one

It means that a man is continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart.

UNTIL thought is related with cause there may be no intelligent accomplishment.

cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

We defined a "luck event" as one that meets three tests: First, you didn't cause it; second, it has a significant potential consequence, good or bad; and third, it has an element of surprise, some aspect of the event is unpredictable before it happens.