Quotes about Causality
They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God.
- Dallas Willard
Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.
- Henry David Thoreau
The men who now sat in front of his desk had been taught that the law of causality was a superstition and that one had to deal with the situation of the moment without considering its cause.
- Ayn Rand
How, then, does an order of causes which is certain to the foreknowledge of God necessitate that there should be nothing which is dependent on our wills, when our wills themselves have a very important place in the order of causes?
- St. Augustine
If it's in your control, why do you do it? If it's in someone else's control, then who are you blaming? Atoms? The gods? Stupid either way. Blame no one.
- Marcus Aurelius
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
- Aristotle
we have found that the whole essence of matter lies in action, a i.e. in causality: as a result, matter must also unify space and time, that is, matter must possess the properties of both time and space simultaneously
- Arthur Schopenhauer
If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. Their existence can be ignored because it would have no observational consequences.
- Stephen Hawking
I believe that You Reap What You Sow. I believe that we don't meet people by accident; everything happens for a reason.
- Roy Bennett
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.
- Richard Swinburne
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
- Jonathan Edwards
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson