Causes Quotes

• Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Activity
  • Pantheism

• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  

  Nicos Anastasiades
  • Kitchen
  • Obligation
  • Misery

• Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the pretense that life is what we want it to be may conceivably bring about the desired condition. Hence religious parables, socialist realism, Nazi propaganda. And if this story likewise crawls with reactionary supernaturalism, that might be because its author longs to see letters scuttling across ceilings, cautiously beginning to reify themselves into angels. For if they could only do that, then why not us?

  

  William T. Vollmann
  • Religious
  • Agree
  • Propaganda

• When people say I don't see you enough, well just because you don't see me don't mean I don't exist or just 'cause you haven't heard me don't mean I haven't been making noise. But if I keep making noise, you'll pick up.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • People
  • Mean
  • Enough

• Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Experience
  • Happy
  • Able

• Three hundred men, who all know each other direct the economic destinies of the Continent and they look for successors among their friends and relations. This is not the place to examine the strange causes of this strange state of affairs which throws a ray of light on the obscurity of our social future.

  

  Walther Rathenau
  • Destiny
  • Strange
  • Economic

• The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Financial
  • Summer
  • Crisis

• I definitely want to produce more because I have a bunch of projects that I've either written or half written and I want to continue developing them and if cant direct one right away cause I'm doing something else I will love to still see it get made.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Made
  • Half
  • Direct

• Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

  

  Walter A. Shewhart
  • Nature
  • Causes
  • Constant

• True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit, too, rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself.

  

  Karl Ludwig von Knebel
  • Character
  • Hope
  • Energy

• The Jews are the problem. The Jews are the cause of all the problems in the world.

  

  William G. Boykin
  • World
  • Problem
  • Jew

• We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

  

  Sadao Araki
  • Military
  • Causes
  • Morality

• Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!

  

  Ellen Raskin
  • My Life
  • Winds
  • Gathered

• Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Death
  • Dying
  • Swear

• Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.

  

  Virgil
  • Happy
  • Causes
  • Effects

• It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Knowledge
  • Causes
  • Establishment

• No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Time
  • Men
  • Values

• Cause a little trouble. It’s good for you.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Good
  • Trouble
  • Littles

• The first draft is for YOU, the writer; the second and subsequent drafts are for the reader. Trying to do both things at once — figuring out what we want to say, while also fashioning it for another human being to read — is the cause of writer’s block.

  

  Karen Karbo
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Humans

• Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

  

  Walter A. Shewhart
  • Past
  • Chance
  • Term

• You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wife
  • Hearing
  • Sassy

• The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Search
  • Facts
  • Causes

• You can get connections in lots of ways. You can get it by a friendship. You can get it by a dog. You can get it by a child. You can get it by being attached to a cause. You can get it by having huge problems and sharing those problems with other people.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Children
  • Problem

• Art is the work of a human, an individual seeking to make a statement, to cause a reaction, to connect. Art is something new, every time, and art might not work, precisely because it's new, because it's human and because it seeks to connect.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Individual

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