Horace Mann Quotes

Events do not really have beginnings or ends. Behind every event is the previous one, causing, or helping to cause, what follows.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced.

Political history is not a sequence of incoherent and haphazard events but a chain of causes and effects.

Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'

We live in a world of cause and effect.

Your world is one of cause and effect.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

In the fabric of human events, one thing leads to another. Every mistake is in a sense the product of all the mistakes that have gone before it, from which fact it derives a sort of cosmic forgiveness; and at the same time every mistake is in a sense the determinant of all the mistakes of the future, from which it derives a sort of cosmic unforgivableness.

Events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Nothing in life is without cause and effect. Nothing is merely a shell. Everything has some motive.

If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?

Everything has a cause.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

It is a law, that every event depends on some law.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order

There is no luck in life, everything happens for a reason. Every little thing that you do... leads up to a bigger thing. And that's the story of my life.

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.