Causes Quotes - Page 55

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

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.

If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause.

It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

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.

Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues.

What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?

Young women should begin to build bone mass early in their lives. The more mass there is, the less they will lose in later life. They should enjoy a diet of calcium-rich foods and avoid food and drink that causes bone loss.

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Improper breathing is a common cause of ill health.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.

In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

Never give in or give up easily on a cause.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

In reality there is no cause or effect, there is only the indifference of the universe.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

Completion comes when we not just wake up from all form, from all identification, but when love causes us to re-embrace it all.

Nobody can give us what we really already are. Wouldn't it be terrible if somebody could give you what you really are? ...'cause if they could give it to you, they could take it away.

Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.