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Causal analysis provides absolutely no value judgment, and a value judgment is absolutely not a causal explanation. -- Max Weber
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. -- Johan Huizinga
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point. -- Edward Tufte
We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization. -- Michael Shermer
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. -- Ernst Haeckel
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature. -- Hans Jonas
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. -- Jean Piaget
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict. -- Ben Bernanke
Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting correlations. It's exactly these issues which come up in evaluating studies in public health. -- Emily Oster
The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school. -- Emily Oster
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. -- Robin Marantz Henig
It may act as an ancillary factor, but by itself, the mutation in tau doesn't give you Alzheimer's disease. This is not to say the tau is not very important. It may be important in propagating the disorder from one cell to another. But as a causal mechanism, the evidence is strongest for beta amyloid abnormalities. -- Eric Kandel
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Brains are not magical; they are causal machines. -- Patricia Churchland
The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal. -- E. Cheraskin
Now there is apparently a causal link between heroin addiction and vegetarianism. -- Irvine Welsh
Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances -- Albert Bandura
To grant thought causal efficacy is not to invoke a disembodied mental state -- Albert Bandura
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are like an atomic structure. We've got a causal body that's linked together. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which -- Arthur Koestler
The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic]. -- Gregory Bateson
Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers. -- Jerry Fodor
I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do. -- Robert Schwentke
Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. -- Albert Einstein
The causal body is the determining factor in the changes that occur within your structure or growth rate. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field. -- Frederick Lenz
Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field. -- Frederick Lenz
The Akashic Records are the impressions from all of our past lives that are available within our causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is possible to modify your awareness to perceive what plants perceive, birds, beings in the astral, the causal. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There can be no autonomous agent with unitary interests called 'society' that exerts causal influence. This is a logical impossibility -- David Buss
Just as the subtle physical body holds together the physical body, the causal body holds together the body of awareness. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution. -- Frederick Lenz
The causal body is like DNA or RNA in that it is the coding that determines your level of evolution. -- Frederick Lenz
Beyond the subtle physical body, is the causal body, the part of your being that lives from one lifetime to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The fact of the existence of two theories [causal and acausal] that contradict each other in Jung ... corresponds psychologically to the vascillation between 3 and 4. -- Wolfgang Pauli
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point. -- Edward Tufte
We can never prove that we are free or integrate our freedom in any way into our objective conception of the causal order of nature. -- Allen W. Wood
Whatever you have learned in your previous incarnations is retained within your causal body, your multi-lifetime body of energy that lives from one incarnation to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The causal body holds the structure. The causal body is the coding. So you are not just scattered all over the ten thousand states of mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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? -- Garry Trudeau
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. -- Carl Jung
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. -- Jerome Bruner
Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away. -- David Perkins
The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The intuitive mind is nonphysical. It is not part of the brain or any other cellular structure in the physical body. It is part of the causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Life reorders you when you go into the clear light. Even the causal structure is liquefied. The clear light of reality, the dharmakaya, changes us into beings of light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason. -- Ludwig Buchner
Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana. -- Frederick Lenz
The causal body is the part of you that lives forever. It is ancient and complicated. It has lived through countless lives in both this and in other worlds. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The causal body is the most ancient and timeless part of a person. It has the capacity to know and do things that the physical mind and body cannot. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When I talk about subtle bodies, causal bodies and things like that, it is a good idea not to take it all completely literally. It cannot be put into words. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order... -- Hans Reichenbach
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals. -- Stephen Jay Gould
What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level. -- Christoph Waltz
The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite. -- Rachel Kushner
Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds. -- Sri Yukteswar Giri
The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea. -- Max Planck
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. -- Frederick Lenz
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness. -- Frederick Lenz

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