We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am -… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create. — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
