underlying cause Quotes

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Microsoft is not the problem. Microsoft is the symptom.

There is a reason why all things are as they are.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

Everything has a cause.

In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must determine, and then we can act on the phenomena or recognize and foresee them accurately. But not by statistics shall we succeed in this; never have statistics taught anything, and never can they teach anything about the nature of the phenomenon.

We do not know with any of these neuropsychiatric disorders what the ultimate basis is. Let's say you could find that too much of protein X was involved in schizophrenia. Would you then know what schizophrenia is? You would not.

I believe every act of violence is also a message that needs to be understood. Violence should not be answered just by greater violence but by real understanding. We must ask: 'Where is the violence coming from? What is its meaning?

Medical treatment is emergency care for symptoms that have developed over a long period of time. The symptom is the flower on a plant. Treating the symptom is picking the flower, while the plant remains untouched.

There is nothing without reason.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

We fix symptoms but almost never deal with the underlying cause. We put out fires but we don’t prevent them.

There is one basic cause of all effects.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

It's not that tens of millions of people all want to be violent. But they share the worldview that then, at its extreme, gives rise to the violence. And in my view, this is why this is such a global problem.

What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state.

I knew what I did and I knew how I did it, but I didn't know why.

Deep in the fundamental heart of mind and Universe there is a reason.

Many patients imagine that they have tried everything. True, they have used many remedies, but they have never had the cause of their infirmity adjusted.

Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form.

The truth seems . . . to be that in the ultimate and essential problem the economic factor is relatively superficial and unimportant.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for anything he did at all: he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.