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Causality quotes

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“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” - 1877

“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” - 1843

“There is occasions and causes why and wherefore in all things.” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

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