Philosophy Quote by David S. Kidder

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

— Thomas Huxley

“Whenever there’s a problem B, we assume that event A caused it. The financial crisis is caused by bankers; the loss of jobs is…

— Jurgen Appelo

“Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

All is bound by the law of causation

— Swami Vivekananda

“It is not always necessary to search for the cause behind everything, because every cause is unfounded. A cause only looks like a cause…

— László Krasznahorkai

“Correlation does not imply causation,”

— Sean Chercover

“Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at…

— Albert Vigoleis Thelen

All that happens is the cause of all that happens. Causes are numberless; the idea of a sole cause is an illusion.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

— Horace Mann

“It is beyond the power of the human intellect to encompass all the causes of any phenomenon. But the impulse to search into causes…

— Leo Tolstoy

Everything has a cause and the cause of anything is everything.

— Walter J. Turner