Crude Causal Theory

Famous quotes containing the words crude, causal and/or theory:

    On the pavement
    of my trampled soul
    the soles of madmen
    stamp the prints of rude, crude words.
    Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930)

    There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    ... liberal intellectuals ... tend to have a classical theory of politics, in which the state has a monopoly of power; hoping that those in positions of authority may prove to be enlightened men, wielding power justly, they are natural, if cautious, allies of the “establishment.”
    Susan Sontag (b. 1933)