Gregory Bateson Quotes

I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.

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

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Every why has a wherefore.

Every why hath a wherefore.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

Everything is a reaction.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.

What happens today can affect what happens tomorrow, but it cannot affect what happened yesterday.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the effect for the cause.

What happened yesterday affects today; what happens today will affect tomorrow/

God has created a logical universe of cause and effect. He who repudiates causality actually repudiates reason.

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.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Things don't happen for no reason.

Everything has a cause.

There's always a reason for everything.

There is no fyre without some smoke.

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

The complexities of cause and effect defy analysis.