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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
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"The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either."

"I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal."

"The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival."

"What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe."

"Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color."

"The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time."

"There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other."
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