Quotessence
Home / Topics / Effects Quotes

Effects Quotes

Browse 4896 quotes about Effects.

Related topics

IfsPeopleCausesThinkingWorldWayMenKnowsMayMindWantProduceSidesHumansCause And EffectDoeSpecialShouldSide EffectsFirstsFeelsGivingActionHas BeensLittlesWellsSpecial EffectsKindLongTryingYearsArtMadeStatesWritingMeanUseLawLooksRealBelievePersonsFactsNeedsCertainIdeasBodySeemsDifferentCharacterStillsResultsNaturalFormDoneStoriesTermWarWholeBookEndsGovernmentSaidHelpingChildrenForceScienceTwoImportantReasonSoundFilmPoliticalFeelingsHappensI CanIndividualMatterMightSelfSocialSoulWould BeBigsOrderInfluenceUsedGreaterHandsCountryCoursesShowsProfoundTodayHardLightMoralPowerfulBeliefEconomymore

Effects Quotes

“One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.”

ThinkingShouldEndsUsePurposeCausesNaturalFictionEffectsCommunicationPureConceptsScientistPressesExplanationConventionalCause And EffectPrevailingDesignation
Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche
Create image

“Now it must be asked if we can comprehend why comets signify the death of magnates and coming wars, for writers of philosophy say so. The reason is not apparent, since vapor no more rises in a land where a pauper lives than where a rich man resides, whether he be king or someone else. Furthermore, it is evident that a comet has a natural cause not dependent on anything else; so it seems that it has no relation to someone's death or to war. For if it be said that it does relate to war or someone's death, either it does so as a cause or effect or sign. De Cometis”

IfsMenDoeSaidWarReasonPhilosophySeemsCausesNaturalRichLandEffectsKingsRelationRelateDependentEvidentRich ManCometsVapor
Author:Albertus Magnus
Create image

“The mind moves by instincts, associations and premonitions and not by fixed dates or completed processes. Action and reaction will occur simultaneously: or the cause actually be found after the effect. Errors will be resisted before they have been properly promulgated: notions will be first defined long after they are dead.”

MindFirstsLongHas BeensActionMovingFoundCausesProcessEffectsErrorsInstinctNotionReactionsDefinedFixedAssociationPremonitionAction And Reaction
Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
Create image

“The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be dictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.”

PeopleMenUseSeemsLawCausesLordPracticeEffectsTaxesDestructionRaisesAffairAdministrationAlcoholismLiquorPublic Affairs
Author:Lord Chesterfield
Create image

“In an economy, an act, a habit, an institution, or a law, gives birth not only to an effect, but to a series of effects. Of these effects, the first only is immediate; it manifests itself simultaneously with its cause - it is seen. The others unfold in succession - they are not seen. Now this difference is enormous, for it is often true that when the immediate consequence is favorable, the ultimate consequences are fatal, and the converse.”

GivingFirstsLawCausesDifferencesEconomyEffectsBirthHabitConsequenceUltimateInstitutionsSeriesInvestingEnormousSuccessionConverses
Author:Frederic Bastiat
Create image

“How often we have had cause to regret that the histrionic art, of all the fine arts the most intense in its immediate effect, should be, of all others, the most transient in its result! - and the only memorials it can leave behind, at best, so imperfect and so unsatisfactory!”

ShouldArtCausesResultsBehindsEffectsRegretFineTheaterIntenseImperfectMemorialFine ArtsTransientHistrionic
Book:Memoirs and essays, illustrative of art, literature and social morals
Create image

“Discoveries are always accidental; and the great use of science is by investigating the nature of the effects produced by any process or contrivance, and of the causes by which they are brought about, to explain the operation and determine the precise value of every new invention. This fixes as it were the latitude and longitude of each discovery, and enables us to place it in that part of the map of human knowledge which it ought to occupy. It likewise enables us to use it in taking bearings and distances, and in shaping our course when we go in search of new discoveries.”

HumansUseValuesCoursesCausesProcessEffectsOughtDiscoveryDistanceDetermineInventionOperationsMapsPreciseInvestigatingHuman KnowledgeLatitudeNew DiscoveriesNew InventionsUses Of ScienceLatitude And Longitude
Author:Benjamin Thompson
Create image

“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits; that relation and connection are not somewhere and sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany, no exemption, no anomaly,--but method, and an even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”

ThinkingMenDoeSometimesActionCausesDealsEffectsSonConnectionsRelationMethodFortuneFruitExceptionSkepticismCause And EffectUnbeliefAnomaliesExemptionMiscellany
Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)
Create image

“The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense, riveting, and timeless story of strong and weak men, of heroes and scoundrels and innocents too, all caught in the fateful circumstances of rebellion, plague, and war that always strip away the veneer of culture and show us for what we really are.”

MenWarStoriesShowsTurnsCultureStrongCausesEffectsHeroCircumstancesWeakCaughtIntenseAbstractDryRebellionTimelessPlagueCause And EffectScoundrelsChroniclesVeneerWeak Man
Book:The Landmark Thucydides
Create image

“Don't aim at success — the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long run — in the long run, I say — success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think of it.”

ThinkingWantPersonsLongDoeHappensMotivationalRunningCausesSidesGreaterEffectsMissingProductsGoes OnConscienceAimForgottenOneselfCaringSurrenderCommandTargetDedicationLong RunsI Want YouPursuedSearch For MeaningSide EffectsNot CaringMans Search For MeaningAuthentic HappinessAdmonishStimulus And Response
Book:The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny
Create image

“The activities and effects of the Fire and Air elements in the astral sphere call forth the astral-electric fluid, and the activities and effects of the Water and Earth elements call forth the astral-magnetic fluid. The spirit-beings use these fluids to create the effects or rather the causes in our physical world. The Akasha Principle of the astral sphere maintains the harmonious equilibrium of the elements in the entire astral sphere.”

WorldUseEarthSpiritCausesWaterPrinciplesFireMagicAirEffectsActivityElementsMysticismSpheresElectricFluidHarmoniousEquilibriumMagnetic
Author:Franz Bardon
Create image

“In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.”

WorldHumansBodyRealityEvilCausesHuman BeingsViewsMagicInfluenceEffectsDivineTypeConceptsNegativeToolsPoint Of ViewGood And EvilMysticismProvidenceDivine ProvidenceNegative InfluencePositive Influence
Author:Franz Bardon
Create image

“As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.”

HandsLawCausesEffectsMovementProduceRemainsDuesKarmaProducersLatterCosmicUnseenDisturbanceTracing
Book:The Key to Theosophy
Create image

“Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn... If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around... Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance.”

IfsGivingDoeShowsLawCausesJusticePerfectEffectsLove YouReturnBalanceUniversalRewardsRevengeKarmaReapCause And EffectAvengersUniversal LawsPerfect BalanceFavoritismGoes Around Comes Around
Author:Mary T Browne
Create image

“There is good Karma, there is bad Karma, and as the wheel of life moves on, old Karma is exhausted and again fresh Karma is accumulated... Karma is twofold, hidden and manifest, Karma is the man that is, Karma is his action. True that each action is a cause from which evolves the countless ramifications of effect in time and space... To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.”

MenActionSpiritualMovingCausesSpaceEffectsHe ManHighestHarmonyKarmaEvolveAspirationWheelsManifestExhaustedTime And SpaceNemesisRamificationsBad KarmaGood KarmaLife Moves OnWheel Of Life
Author:William Quan Judge
Create image

“Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity, and to enter a narrow channel leading out of the lake. Suppose then another similar cause to have excited another equal series of waves, which arrive at the same time, with the first. Neither series of waves will destroy the other, but their effects will be combined.”

FirstsMovingScienceCertainCausesWaterNumbersEffectsEqualConstantSeriesWaveExcitedSurfaceLakesStagnantVelocity
Book:Miscellaneous Works: Scientific memoirs
Create image

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.”

ThinkingFirstsBelieveArtMadeReasonPhilosophyAbleEarthHeavenCausesUnderstandingNaturalChanceAtheismEffectsSkillsArt IsEternityInfiniteAtheistFoolishCirclesMade ItBeastFollyFabricCentreHeaven And EarthOysters
Author:Jeremy Taylor
Create image

“Dilbert: Evolution must be true because it is a logical conclusion of the scientific method. Dogbert: But science is based on the irrational belief that because we cannot perceive reality all at once, things called time and cause and effect exist. Dilbert: That's what I was taught and that's what I believe. Dogbert: Sounds cultish.”

BelieveRealityScienceBeliefI BelieveCausesSoundEffectsTaughtEvolutionAccountsMethodConclusionBeing TruePerceiveLogicalIrrationalCause And EffectScientific MethodDilbertIrrational Beliefs
Author:Scott Adams
Create image

“Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.”

IfsMayPersonsDoeHandsCausesDestinyEffectsMissingEventsActivityDirectBreathsAffairCrowdsChainsNecksLinksLinkedScopeSequenceCause And EffectInterferenceFuture Events
Book:Transparent things: a novel
Create image

“From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.”

HumansEarthTogetherPoliticalCausesLevelsNumbersMillionsSunTakenFireGrowingSeaEffectsCivilizationConsequenceBasesBiggerStrongerRaisesClimateStormIceHeatFloodTrapsRefugeeCropsEmissionsPolitical SystemsDroughtHuman Civilization
Author:Al Gore
Create image

“Were I to solve problems for others they would remain stagnant; they would never grow. It would be a great injustice to them. My approach is to help with cause rather than effect. When I help others, it is by instilling within them the inspiration to work out problems by themselves. If you feed a man a meal, you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food, you feed him for a lifetime.”

IfsMenHelpingProblemInspirationWould BeGrowsCausesTeachEffectsApproachLifetimeInjusticeWork OutSolveHelping OthersMealsStagnant
Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
Create image

“Empathy with someone else's pain or lack and a desire to help need to be balanced with a deeper realization of the eternal nature of all life and the illusion of all pain. Then let your peace flow into whatever you do, and you will be working on the levels of effect and cause simultaneously.”

NeedsHelpingPainDesireCausesLevelsEffectsEternalEmpathyIllusionFlowDeeperRealizationBalanced
Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Create image