#Causality Quotes

“For the success,Although particular, shall give a scantlingOf good or bad unto the general;And in such indexes, although small pricksTo their subsequent volumes, there is seenThe baby figure of the giant massOf things to come at large.”

“There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.”

“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”

“Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?”

“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”

“There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”

“The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects.”

“You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them, nor does the resulting quotient have any necessary relationship to anything in the real world.”

“It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality?”

“The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly.”

“We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.”

“The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . .”

“With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving.”

“The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.”

“What is the cause, though, of the growth of an acorn? The oak that is to come! What is to happen in the future is then the cause of what is occurring now; and, at the same time, what occurred in the past is also the cause of what is happening now. In addition, a great number of things round about, on every side, are causing what is happening now. Everything, all the time, is causing everything else”

“Every action and feeling is preceded by a thought.”

“It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.”

“But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.”

“It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.”

“Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”

“Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.”

“Quid quid movetur ab alio movetur"(nothing moves without having been moved).”

“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.”

“The wake doesn't drive the ship”