John Stuart Mill Quotes

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

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

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

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

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

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

Everything has a cause.

Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?

The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

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

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

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

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.

We live in a world of cause and effect.

In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

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.