Causality

Causality is the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is understood as a consequence of the first. Though the causes and effects are typically related to changes or event, candidates include objects, processes, properties, variables, facts, and states of affairs; characterizing the causal relationship can be the subject of much debate. The philosophical treatment of causality extends over millennia. In the Western philosophical tradition, discussion stretches back at least to Aristotle, and the topic remains a staple in contemporary philosophy.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 91.

• To all facts there are laws,
  The effect has its cause, and I mount to the cause.
  • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Lucile (1860), Part II, Canto III, Stanza 8.

• Causa latet: vis est notissima.
  • The cause is hidden, but the result is known.
  • Ovid, Metamorphoses, IV. 287.

• Ask you what provocation I have had?
  The strong antipathy of good to bad.
  • Alexander Pope, Epilogue to Satires, Dialogue 2, line 205.

• Your cause doth strike my heart.
  • William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1611), Act I, scene 6, line 118.

• Find out the cause of this effect,
  Or rather say, the cause of this defect,
  For this effect defective comes by cause.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act II, scene 2, line 101.

• God befriend us, as our cause is just!
  • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 1, line 120.

• Mine's not an idle cause.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 2, line 95.

• Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.
  • Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
  • Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), II, 490.