Nicolas Malebranche

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. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#contains #divine #earth #feed #find

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

#angels #be happy #believing #demons #even

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. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#alone #another #being #cannot #creatures

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

#air #god #into #makes #modifications

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

#authority #connection #experience #faith #feelings

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

— Nicolas Malebranche

#eyes #ideas #just #light #minds

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

#body #directly #god #immediately #ordinary

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#easily #got #longer #old #prejudices

We are made to know and love God. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#know #love #made

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

#arm #cannot #change #effect #evil