"I do not believe there is anything useful……" — Nicolas Malebranche
"I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra."
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22 Quotes by Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche has 22 quotes on this site.
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Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
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Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,
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I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken…
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You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log…
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Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing…
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed…
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I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop…
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All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all…
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You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil,…
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You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself,…
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God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through…
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More Algebra Quotes
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Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies…
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In the algebra of psychology, X stands for a woman's heart.
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Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. But…
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its…
— Victor Hugo
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If you could stop every atom in its position and direction, and if your mind could comprehend all the actions…
— Tom Stoppard
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever…
— John Stuart Mill
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five…
— Woody Allen
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the…
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