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The mind is the effect, not the cause.

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

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.