Causality Quotes

“The simple-minded always look for a single cause for everything.”

“The real problem is that we're not spending enough time trying to deal with the underlying causes of these conflicts.”

“The United States of America were not the offspring of a whim, but the result of a long train of causes.”

“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”

“Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.”

“The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.”

“Every solution breeds new problems.”

“The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.”

“Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.”

“Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you.”

“Every event in the visible world is the effect of an 'image', that is, of a thought in the unseen.”

“Whatever is dependently co-arisen, that is explained to be emptiness.”

“Anti-Semitism was the necessary, but not sufficient, cause of the Holocaust.”

“It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.”

“You could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby... changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole.”

“If there had been no Rasputin, there would have been no Lenin.”

“Plant lilies, and lilies will bloom; Plant roses, and roses will grow.”

“It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.”

“The events which transpired five thousand years ago; five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years from now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.”

“Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.”