Quotes about Causality

Leibniz's reasoning: 1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence. 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God. 3. The universe exists.

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Our actions are not simply links in a closed chain of causally connected physical events. We have the capacity to be first causes, starting a new chain of cause and effect.

I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.

Natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.

The quantity comes from the efficient cause but the quality comes from the formal cause.

Philosopher William Lane Craig reminds us that an infinite regress of causes is like trying to jump out of a bottomless pit. How do you start if you never reach the bottom? On the other hand, one might well ask, if every birth is a rebirth, what kamma was paid for in his first birth?

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’

Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Law of Causality, which is the fundamental principle of science. Without the Law of Causality, science is impossible.

God is always the first cause, but there are truly second causes; and they are the means which God uses, in the ordinary course of the world, for the accomplishment of His ends. It is the exclusion of such second causes which makes an event a miracle.