Causes Quote by Johannes Kepler

The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

— Nancy Pearcey

Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.

— Robert Lanza

Thus ordered thinking arises out of the ordered course of nature in which man finds himself, and this thinking is from the beginning nothing…

— Wilhelm Wundt

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

— Jostein Gaarder

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

“Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things. Mind…

— James Allen

There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Mind is the cause; everything else is effect.

— Alan Cohen

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

— William Shakespeare

Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

— Rudolf Arnheim

Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside.

— Swami Vivekananda

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders…

— Diane Ackerman