The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.
The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.
Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.
People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.