"Uncaused" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comes to use its tools? It is a something, we shall find, that our minds cannot give harbour to. It is a thing contrary to every analogy of nature. It is a thing which is forever causing, but which is in itself uncaused. ...
— Is Life Worth Living? • William Hurrell Mallock
... efforts to take place other physical conditions must be presupposed, which are not wholly within my own control. I am the cause, but not the whole or sole cause of these physical disturbances in external nature: I am a cause but not an uncaused cause. {40} My volition, though it is not the sole cause of the event which I will, is enough to give me a conception of a cause which is the sole cause of ...
— Philosophy and Religion - Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge • Hastings Rashdall |
