Quotes About Causality

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire

A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be.

Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.

But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them.

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. The wheel of causality doth not roll between them.

And we had made a nice misuse of that 'empiricism', we had created the world on the basis of it as a world of causes, as a world of will, as a world of spirit.

Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.

For the record: Quantum mechanics does not deny the existence of objective reality. Nor does it imply that mere thoughts can change external events. Effects still require causes, so if you want to change the universe, you need to act on it.

Karma can be compared to a seed. Before the rains, the whole land is barren. There would be nothing. It rains; suddenly all kinds of vegetation will sprout up. The seeds are already there; they're just waiting for the right kind of atmosphere.

Thus there are two reasons why you must be content with what happens to you: first because it was for you it came to pass, for you it was ordered and to you it was related, a thread of destiny stretching back to the most ancient causes; secondly because that which has come to each individually is a cause of the welfare and the completion in very truth of the actual continuance of that which governs the Whole.

Tres son las relaciones. Una con el recipiente[388] que nos contiene, otra con la causa divina a partir de la cual suceden a todos todas las cosas y otra con quienes convivimos.

and how all things that are, concur in the cause of one another's being, and by what manner of connection and concatenation all things happen.

Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Everything happens for a reason, doesn't it? Even if you don't consciously agree with that statement, your brain sure does.

Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result.

nada de lo que ocurre está aislado. Un solo acto malo puede tener toda clase de repercusiones.

If the laws of physics are not strictly causal the most that can be said is that the behaviour of the conscious brain is one of the possible behaviours of a mechanical brain. Precisely so; and the decision between the possible behaviours is what we call volition.

To the question whether I would admit that the cause of the decision of the atom has something in common with the cause of the decision of the brain, I would simply answer that there is no cause. In the case of the brain I have a deeper insight into the decision; this insight exhibits it as volition, i.e. something outside causality.

It is evident that everything which does not exist at first and then exists, is determined by something other than itself.