17 Quotes Tagged: cause

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

you are the cause by which I die

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

No cause occurs without effect, and no effect occurs without cause. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing the need for a Grand Designer, and revealing how the universe created itself. … Time itself must come to a stop. You can’t get to a time before the big bang, because there was no time before the big bang. We have finally found something that does not have a cause because there was no time for a cause to exist in. For me this means there is no possibility of a creator because there is no time for a creator to have existed. Since time itself began at the moment of the Big Bang, it was an event that could not have been caused or created by anyone or anything. … So when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn’t exist before the Big Bang, so there is no time for God to make the universe in. It’s like asking for directions to the edge of the Earth. The Earth is a sphere. It does not have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

No effect occurs without cause, and no cause occurs without effect. No unjust action goes without penalty, and no action or thought flows unnoticed throughout the universe.

In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all these things.