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causality quotes

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“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat
“There can be no effect without a cause . . . the whole is necessarily concatenated and arranged for the best.” Voltaire, Candide
“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.” William Shakespeare, Henry V

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