David Hume Quotes

Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

According to the Law of Cause and Effect, every effect must have a cause. In other words, everything that happens has a catalyst; everything that came into being has something that caused it. Things don't just happen by themselves.

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.

Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

I believe that everything we think and feel and do produces a result and that we have to deal with that result - that result is then something that produces another result, so on and so forth, so yes, I do believe in causality.

There is a price to pay for most of our actions. For every action, there is a reaction.

You can say whatever you want, but there's going to be consequences to it.

A crazy action only works if there's a great reaction.

In my opinion, he who invalidates is himself invalid.

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat.

A lot of people in their mind think ‘If there is a problem this is what I would do, this is how I would do it.’ But the truth is they don’t really know. Parkour teaches you to be sure of what you are able to do.

Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

A thing of nature. For every Push, there is a Pull. A consequence.

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.

By that which you kill are you bound.

As the cause is, so the effect will be.

If there really is a complete unified theory that governs everything, it presumably also determines your actions. But it does so in a way that is impossible to calculate for an organism that is as complicated as a human being. The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can't predict what they will do.

Each choice has a consequence. Each consequence a destination.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.