External Cause Quotes
- God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist… — Orson Scott Card
- Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our… — Johannes Peter Muller
- Love is pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause, and hatred pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. — Baruch Spinoza
- The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has… — Marcus Aurelius
- Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things… — Marcus Aurelius
- From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea… — Baruch Spinoza
- It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be… — Gottfried Leibniz