“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”
“...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272]”
“...my inclination toward an action always plummets in direct correlation to someone's demand. Call me contrary.”
“It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second.”
“Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result.""Do you believe in it?"He doesn’t allow even a pause. “Very much so.”
“Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.”