Causality Quotes

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Chance... is a more fundamental conception than causality.”

“God laughs at men who complain of the consequences while they cherish the causes.”

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

“Self-esteem is not a cause, but a consequence.”

“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.”

“The principal cause of war is war itself.”

“Everything is a prelude to something else.”

“Nothing is made from nothing.”

“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”

“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”

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