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“Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.”

Causes Nature Practice Effects Nonsense

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”

Men Science Nature Natural Minutes Effects Objects Ten Rain Mere Sand Salt Grain Showers Puzzles Wisest Grains Of Sand Appliances Grain Of Salt

Book:Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

Source: Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews

“If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.”

Ifs Feels I Can Speak Nature Achieve Effects Flower Garden Infinite Blue Tone Colour Someday Old Fashioned Matching Flower Garden Monet

Author:Marcel Proust

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October.”

May Feelings Nature Environment Effects Produce Seasons Spots Pleasant Autumn Sunny October October And Fall

Book:Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

Source: Passages from the American Note-Books (Annotated Edition)

“To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.”

Science Causes Nature Natural Results Conditions Effects Produce Passing Passings Passing Away

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation