Cause and effect (n.) is what we fools call a regular succession of pictures in the mirror of the intellect — we have seen nothing but pictures of causes, and their very pictorialness blocks any deeper insight.
Cause and effect (n.) are dangerous to confuse: that error is the genuine destruction of reason — and we sanctify it and call it religion and morality.
Cause and effect (n.) never shows up in consciousness, which has never furnished us a single example of it; the sequence of thoughts and feelings is only their becoming-visible.
Cause and effect (n.) is an ancient mythology of a constant "being" shifting about, which found its firm form in the functions of language and grammar.
Cause and effect (n.) is a false interpretation of a war and a relative victory.