224 Quotes About Cause-and-effect

Karma literally means “deed” or “act” and more broadly names the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction which governs all life. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.

If natural philosophy does not teach us the remedies for many diseases, it furnishes us at least with certain means to contract them.

Everyone in the universe is interconnected. When you aren’t open to grow; you are in fact creating hindrances in everyone’s growth.

It is no consolation to reflect that every cause itself is an effect, making the search for causes and reasons a fool’s errand.

A body of ten ounces raised in any scale may serve as a proof, that the counterbalancing weight exceeds ten ounces; but can never afford a reason that it exceeds a hundred.

Can we say, in this case, that the cause of a cause is the relevant cause?

The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts will do the same thing in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in a path or a breath caught at the sight of a pretty girl or a finger nail nicked in the garden soil.

If you listen at doors, you hear what you deserve.

To communicate despite all invitations to do otherwise is to be cause.