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Causality quotes

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“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

“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

“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.” William Shakespeare, Henry V

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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