Greg Grandin Quotes

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

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.

Time travel offends our sense of cause and effect - but maybe the universe doesn't insist on cause and effect.

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.

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.'

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

Everything has a cause.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

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

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

The past is a kind of future that has already happened.

The past is what makes now like now makes tomorrow.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

One link in a chain explains the infinite chain.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

All is bound by the law of causation

Time is eternity begun.

In the beginning was the thing. And one thing led to another.

I am only a philosopher, and there is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.

Don't Time travel into the past. You can't change it. Today it starts all over again. Every tomorrow is determined by every day.

In the battle that is philosophy all the techniques of war, including looting and camouflage, are permissible.

Every event in this world is the effect of some precedent cause, and also the cause of some subsequent effect.

Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences, which crowd tightly together and press hard one upon the other without any pause. This has its importance for any narrative, of which continuity and successiveness are the soul.