Causal Link Quotes

The past is a present force.

The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

We know that sensory phenomena are transcribed in the photographic emulsion in such a way that even if there is a causal link with the real phenomena, the graphic images can be considered as wholly arbitrary with respect to these phenomena.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

I ate one anchovy, and that is why I did not eat two anchovies.

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

The present is saturated with the past and pregnant with the future.

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.'

The present is the key to the past

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.

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

The present is the past biting into the future.

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

I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.

The future is embedded in the present.

Mrs Woolf's complaint should be addressed to her creator, who made her, rather than me.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?

If that suffers in its credit, the Cause must suffer. If that fails, the Cause must fail.

I have never once been persuaded as to the causal link between the Iraqi regime, al-Qaeda and September 11. I do believe the impact of war under these circumstances is bound to weaken the international coalition against terrorism itself.

If people dying as a consequence of the implementation of measures cannot count as evidence that the legislation has detrimental effects, what would?

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?