#Causation Quotes

“Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.”

“Beside all the small reasons we assign, there is a great reason for the existence of every extant fact; a reason which lies grandand immovable, often unsuspected behind it in silence.”

“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings have it, than the Automatists are when they say they haven't it. As in the night all cats are gray, so in the darkness of metaphysical criticism all causes are obscure. But one has no right to pull the pall over the psychic half of the subject only . . . whilst in the same breath one dogmatizes about material causation as if Hume, Kant, and Lotze had never been born.”

“Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.”

“The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form”

“Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.”

“Everything has a cause.”

“Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.”

“Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.”

“Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect.”

“All is bound by the law of causation”