Quotes About Causality

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

There are no accidents in Nature.

Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Thoughts are nothing but cause and effect.

All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.

THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMULATION

Everything is connected to everything else, and nothing is without consequence

reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity be a gross sophism; since it is impossible for you to know anything of the cause, but what you have antecedently, not inferred, but discovered to the full, in the effect.

However, since we have never observed the construction of a world or observed the world constructors, we have no way of knowing what causal relations might be involved in such a project; all we can do is construct hypotheses, without any way of judging which of these are more or less likely.

The evolutionary usefulness of the ability to recognize patterns and then infer the causal relationships they represent is demonstrated by the fact that precisely the same development of "superstitions" occurs in animals.

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.

There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for these occurrences does not rest with Providence.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.