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The central problem of novel-writing is causality. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality. -- Stanislav Grof
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. -- Susan Sontag
So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own. -- Luc Ferrari
Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that. -- Arif Ahmed
I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it. -- Albert Einstein
The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality. -- Max Planck
The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad. -- Otto Weininger
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned by no later than the date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. -- Terry Pratchett
Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your head, it's probably going to stay there. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Science is all about cause. Now, if really everything is connected to everything, if there really is only a oneness, everything then affects everything, and the whole idea of causality has to be revised. -- Willis Harman
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. -- Bertrand Russell
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who forgives you -- out of love -- takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. -- Sydney J. Harris
The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively. -- Niels Bohr
God's is the causality at the level of our being, and therefore the roots of our freedom. Ours in causality is determinative of what kind of being we're going to be through our free choices, what kind of action we are going to do through our decisions. -- Francis George
I don't think anything good is happening. I think we're paying the price for it. I think while crime in general is going down, youth crime is going up. I think mental health problems of the youth are going up. You can't show causality. It's a hard stretch. -- Edward Zigler
I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets. -- Albert Einstein
For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him. -- Albert Einstein
Forgiveness breaks the chain of causality because he who 'forgives' you--out of love--takes upon himself the consequences of what you have done. Forgiveness, therefore, always entails a sacrifice. The price you must pay for your own liberation through another's sacrifice is that you in turn must be willing to liberate in the same way, irrespective of the consequences to yourself. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Climate change hype has grave real world consequences. It gets rich countries to adopt silly policies and to impose devastating eco-imperialism on poor countries. The world's rich millions can afford environmental extremism; its poor billions can't. Climate change pseudo-science about human causality has been exposed repeatedly. What's less appreciated is that there aren't more natural disasters in need of an explanation. -- Leon Louw
He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free. -- Francis George
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally. -- Deepak Chopra
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way. -- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable. -- Clayton Christensen
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure. -- Michael Mandelbaum
The poetic image exists apart from causality. -- Gaston Bachelard
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. -- Blaise Pascal
When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality. -- Paul Goodman
Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished -- Albert Bandura
Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
This isn't about 'causality' but about 'influence'. The evidence is clear that human-induced climate change is influencing the drought, no matter the cause. -- Peter Gleick
And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality. -- Joyce Carol Oates
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals. -- Martin Buber
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. -- Banesh Hoffmann
But the thought is one thing, the deed is another, and another yet is the image of the deed. The wheel of causality does not roll between them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality. -- Stanislav Grof
Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
It seems then that instead of consumers' willingness to pay influencing market prices, the causality is somewhat reversed and it is market prices themselves that influence consumers' willingness to pay. -- Dan Ariely
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don't immediately understand. -- Jess Row
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality. -- Terry Pratchett
...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe. -- Terry Pratchett
It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from asbsolute beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute beauty, and for no other reason. Do you accept this kind of causality? -- Plato
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can choose to draw water from the well or not. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Because GMOs aren't labeled, it's very hard to prove causality in terms of health effects. It's even more difficult because the seeds are patented, so independent researchers have a hard time gaining access to them. -- Zoe Lister-Jones
The thesis that the universe has an originating divine cause is logically inconsistent with all extant definitions of causality and with a logical requirement upon these and all possible valid definitions or theories of causality. -- Quentin Smith

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