Circular Causality

Famous quotes containing the words circular and/or causality:

    Whoso desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.
    Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)