The CAUSA SUI is the best self-contradiction that has yet been conceived, it is a sort of logical violation and unnaturalness; but the extravagant pride of man has managed to entangle itself profoundly and frightfully with this very folly.
I give and present them to you, my brave Romans; Take them back to their homes; the great gods' blessings attend you.
The right emblem for causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, sinking on horseback into the water, clinging by the legs to his horse and pulling both himself and the animal out by his own pigtail, with the motto underneath: Causa sui.
Es difícil tenerla enjaulada si no se ha criado en casa, a causa quizá de ser de una naturaleza tan viva que no se para jamás, pues hasta para cantar va saltando o revoloteando.
But apart from these more or less spontaneous failings of young men and women, there was the category of offenses in which external influence was the causa movens.
It was the fact that the end of the war seemed not so imminent any longer which furnished the causa movens for the saving of food.
The hypothetical causa finalis it regards as a mere asylum ignorantiae, and as the problem itself not as its solution.
If through ignorance of the law or for other reasons he was unable to come to a decision, "si vero taliscausa fuit, quod ipse .
Lothringen at the Council of Trent: "Clandestinum matrimonium estcausa disjunctionis conjugum; tales enim cum nullos habeant testes matrimonii contracti, pro libito possunt separari.
There is small reason to suppose that he knew more than the name of the huge work De Causa Dei by Thomas Bradwardine.
Here the water as well as the heat are required not only as a stimulus, but as a causa sine quâ non of fluidity and motion, and consequent life.
If not the causa causans, it was the causa sine qua non.
God cannot be thought apart from existence; he has the ground of his existence in himself; he is a se or causa sui.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "causa" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
