Intellect Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“The combination of causes of phenomena is beyond the grasp of the human intellect. But the impulse to seek causes is innate in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“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

“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

“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

Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul.

— Leo Tolstoy

“If you are to suppose that natural reasons are the cause of everything, then it can only lead to the conclusion that consciousness is…

— Lewis N. Roe

“The causality-bound aspect of Nature is not the whole truth. Ultimate Reality is invading our consciousness from other directions as well, and the purely…

— Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal

Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless…

— Leonhard Euler

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“reasonings on this subject can only be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity…

— David Hume