Character Quote by Nicolas Malebranche

I am not my own light unto myself.

— Nicolas Malebranche

I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of…

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

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

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

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is…

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

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

Imagination is the mad boarder.

— Nicolas Malebranche

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

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

— Nicolas Malebranche

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