Causation Quote by George Saunders

“Every object and event must have a plausible chain of causality that leads to it.”

— S.F. Chapman

“While the powers of the Primal Cause lie in causation, it shows itself in process through thoughts, perception and conception. It is the power…

— Dew Platt

“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

“Comprehensiveness is connecting the relevant elements of an event in a logical sense.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

— Swami Vivekananda

“on reasoning about patterns of causation. They are products of System 1. In 1944, at about the same”

— Daniel Kahneman

One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may…

— Jared Diamond

“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

“As you can see, it is very hard to say what causation is. This has led some philosophers to deny that there are causes…

— David S. Kidder

“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

“All events are but the consummation of preceding causes, clearly seen but not distinctly apprehended.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“Outcomes are indisputably necessary, but we must try to make the process the more significant of the two.”

— Paul Harris