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That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the…
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What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
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There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it…
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean…
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Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as…
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That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready…
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
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If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it…
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes.
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As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible,…
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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they…
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
— Zeno of Citium
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic need to…
— Nathan Rosenberg
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If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of…
— Thomas Huxley
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As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the…
— Stephen Batchelor
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God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the…
— S. T. Joshi
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as to the…
— Bertrand Russell
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
— Jared Diamond
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
— Wumen Huikai
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Bullies are always cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
— Swami Vivekananda
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