Causes Quote by Charles Darwin

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

— Joseph Butler

“Addiction is only a hopeless attempt to deal with the pain of living cutoff from who we really are.”

— Dragos Bratasanu

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible…

— Anonymous

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear…

— Edward Sapir

“If "final causes" means purposes, or purposive activities, then Darwinism not only does not "expel" them: it builds them into the very foundation of…

— David C. Stove

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

— Baruch Spinoza

A theory should not attempt to explain all the facts, because some of the facts are wrong

— Francis Crick

The human animal is a fascinating beast. Watching people and trying to learn how and why they do things, and to engage in the…

— Andrew Neel

What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone…

— Ted Nugent

“None of them will believe me. I drop any attempt to explain myself and just gracefully accept that people are going to make assumptions…

— Cat Hellisen

Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but…

— Elbert Hubbard

A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain…

— Edwin Land