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.
Cause Quotes
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
All successful men have agreed in one thing – they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
It is the comman observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomena.
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.
It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors, after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement, convinced that their cause is lost; it is only then that cause triumphs.
