Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
What goes around, comes around.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
God created the law of free will, and God created the law of cause and effect. And he himself will not violate the law. We need to be thinking less in terms of what God did and more in terms of whether or not we are following those laws.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances: it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at right time, or it was so then, and another day it would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Money is a result, wealth is a result, health is a result, illness is a result, your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
Nothing comes from nothing.
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