Author: Nicolas Malebranche

Quotes

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.

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.

- 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.

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

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

- Nicolas Malebranche

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.

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.

- 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 change in the world.

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.

- 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 and agreeable feelings.

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 and agreeable feelings.

- Nicolas Malebranche

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