cause Quotes

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All human actions are caused by one or more of these seven things: chance, nature, force, habit, reason, strong emotion, or desire.

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a)... ...

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.

In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause.

We do not know a truth without knowing its cause.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause... ...

Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Love is the cause of unity in all things.

If the art of ship-building were in the wood, ships would exist by nature.