“The complex world, the notion of 'cause' itself is suspect; it is either nearly impossible to detect or not really defined—another reason to ignore newspapers, with their constant supply of causes for things.”— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, amazon.com
“'Beauty—be not caused,' said Emily Dickinson. 'It is.' In one way she was wrong. The scattering of light over a long distance creates a sunset. The crashing of ocean waves on a beach is created by tides, which are themselves the result of gravitational forces exerted by the sun and the moon and the…”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“Please, ma cherie. I have told you. We are all victims of causality. I drank too much wine, I must take a piss. Cause and effect.”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, The Merovingian, Lambert Wilson, imdb.com
“You see, there is only one constant. One universal. It is the only real truth. Causality. Action, reaction. Cause and effect.”— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, The Merovingian, Lambert Wilson, imdb.com
“But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of things, if only because our use of the word ‘reason’ already implies the idea of causal connexion. But, even if we avoid this fundamental difficulty, Hume…”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite.”— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com
“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people--to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com