All Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
- Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create. Art
- I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra. Algebra
- One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it. Assiduously
- Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul, Attentiveness
- I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels… Angel
- You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. Any
- Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith.… Conformity
- As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as… Bodies
- I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind,… Beg
- All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot… Alike
- You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change… Alter
- You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe… Ascribe
- God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you… Affected
- Imagination is the mad boarder. Boarder
- We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are. Act
- God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same… Affects
- He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the… Body
- Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone. Alone
- Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. Coat
- We are made to know and love God. God