The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.
I learned you don't discover the evidence of any cause in its result.
every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.
We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.
All is bound by the law of causation
The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it should be possible to observe in a given set of circumstances.
When you make bad decisions bad things happen. And it was so simple. You know, the decisions you make are going to become the life that you live!
Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?
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.
Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
History is the best guide to the future.
Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Strummer's Law: No input, no output.
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.
He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.
Everything has a cause.
If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.
Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through.
Either in or out of time, the decision of a personal agency to commit an action happens antecedent to the action itself. Even if the deciding and the acting happened simultaneously, it would still not be true that the acting was antecedent to the deciding. Imagine God saying, "Oh, look! I just created a universe. Now I'd better decide to do it.
I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.
