Final Cause Quotes

12 quotes by 10 authors

• Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process — Gerald Edelman
• This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much as the sun deserves to… — William Harvey
• The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved. — Aristotle
• The final cause of law is the welfare of society. — Benjamin Cardozo
• It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir… — Arthur Balfour
• The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final… — Aristotle
• So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving the thrusts of… — Erasmus Darwin
• But when it comes to human beings, the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose. What a person had in mind.… — Orson Scott Card
• Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars… — Julian Barnes
• I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the… — Walter Scott

Who Wrote These Final Cause Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 12 Final Cause Quotes as follows:

• 2 Final Cause Quotes by Aristotle
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Gerald Edelman
• 1 Final Cause Quote by William Harvey
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Benjamin Cardozo
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Arthur Balfour
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Erasmus Darwin
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Orson Scott Card
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Julian Barnes
• 1 Final Cause Quote by Walter Scott