First Cause Quotes
26 quotes by 26 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?
— Aeschylus
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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
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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
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...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
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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
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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
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The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the…
— Isaac Newton
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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