Nicolas Malebranche Quotes
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 and even demons have those same inclinations.
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 the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
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 are affected.
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 in the world.
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
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 be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.
