causality

• In direct causality, the actor makes a conscious contribution to an immoral act; in indirect causality the actor causes or encourages another actor; and in causality by normative evaluation the actor encourages others to be more tolerant of the immoral action. —  Web Edition | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality -- the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind. —  The Jawa Report
• [14 But Buddha is said to have seen more than these, the Four Great Truths, and the Eightfold Path, for he was enlightened at the same time (after several days of fasting) in regard to the whole chain of causality which is elaborated in the later tradition The general result of this teaching may be formulated thus, that most people are foolishly optimistic and that the great awakening is to become a pessimist. —  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
• The necessary bond which we postulate between cause and effect can neither be demonstrated nor felt If all experiential reasonings depend on the idea of causality, and this has no other support than subjective mental habit, it follows that all knowledge of nature which goes beyond mere observed fact is not knowledge (neither demonstrative knowledge nor knowledge of fact), but belief. —  History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
• In proportion as they approximate to that ideal, they are causes of their own actions, and can claim for themselves the kind of causality which we attribute in its perfection to God. —  Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge

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