Quotes on Causation

The law of Karma is the law of causation.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation.

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

All is bound by the law of causation

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya.

Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

The materialist is sure that history has been simply and solely a chain of causation, just as the [lunatic] is quite sure that he is simply and solely a chicken. Materialists and madmen never have doubts.