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

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Causes, Effect

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Cause, Disaster, Effect, Weakness

"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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

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"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Cause, Will

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Cause, Justification, Reason

"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Cause, Fire, Pain

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Cause, Purity, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Cause, Spiritual, Truth, Wisdom, Life

"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Cause, Karma, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Cause, Sorrow

Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"Who art thou then, O my soul!" (and here [Zarathustra] became frightened, for a sunbeam shot down from heaven upon his face.""O heaven above me," said he sighing, and sat upright, "thou gazest at me? Thou hearkenest unto my strange soul?When wilt thou drink this drop of dew that fell down upon all earthly things-when wilt thou drink this strange soul--When, thou well of eternity! thou joyous, awful, noontide abyss! when wilt thou drink my soul back into thee?"

Spiritual

"It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men."

Strength

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

Cause

"The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."

Philosophy

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."

Home

"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless."

Life

"There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth."

Truth

"One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity."

Psychology

"Fear is the mother of morality."

Family

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

Woman