First Cause Quotes

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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they… — Herbert Spencer
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight.… — Charles Darwin
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
Prayer is that which enables the soul to realize its divinity. Through prayer human beings worship absolute truth, and seek an eternal reward. Prayer is… — Avicenna
If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in… — Damien Broderick
Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult… — Thomas Paine
Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals? — Aeschylus
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain… — John Owen
My one and only piece of relevant evidence [for an Aristotelian God] is the apparent impossibility of providing a naturalistic theory of the origin from… — Antony Flew
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit… — Gregory of Nazianzus
The definition of deism is the philosophical idea of God as a first cause of the universe, who lays down the laws of nature and… — Elizabeth S. Anderson
Worship is to feel in your heart and express in some appropriate manner a humbling but delightful sense of admiring awe and astonished wonder and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from PhÃ¦nomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the… — Isaac Newton
We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us… — Philip Gulley
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how… — Dante Alighieri
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into… — Erasmus Darwin
The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth century),… — Michael Shermer
The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning.… — Marcus Aurelius

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