Cause and effect Quote by Anonymous

“Reason, Hume argued, doesn’t determine what we want but only how we obtain it.”

— Eric Weiner

“Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods,” Einstein noted.…

— Walter Isaacson

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing…

— Philip K. Dick

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume

“Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And expectation, as…

— Jostein Gaarder

“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there are causes…

— David S. Kidder

“However inadequate our ideas of causal efficacy may be, we are less wide of the mark when we say that our ideas and feelings…

— William James

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the…

— Albert Einstein

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of…

— Benjamin Franklin

The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.

— Wumen Huikai

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes…

— Leo Tolstoy