If you are reading this Libellus, you are a Dreamer, whether you have recognized this or not. Being a Dreamer carries responsibility, one most people are not willing to accept. Responsibility implies that one cannot...

Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.

There are no telegraphs on Tralfamadore. But you’re right: each clump of symbols is a brief, urgent message– describing a situation, a scene. We Tralfamadorians read them all at once, not one after the other....

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that...

Nothing’s random. Even if it looks that way, it’s just because you don’t know the causes.

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

Maybe I’m wrong; I might not believe in fate but I do believe in causality and who’s to say fate isn’t just a sort of social mathematics that brings like-minded people together.

Atheism is a religion of egoism….they hate the name “God” so much that they INSIST that whatever CAUSED BigBang should not be called anything else except Bigbang.

The sum of the particular intentions of God is the universe itself.

Thirty years ago, we used to ask: Can a computer simulate all processes of logic? The answer was yes, but the question was surely wrong. We should have asked: Can logic simulate all sequences of...

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

We are particularly concerned with the question to what degree approval and implementation of an explanatory model minimising collective or institutional responsibility for certain problems and emphasising individual responsibility promotes detrimental perceptions and behaviours amongst...

Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something...

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...