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Nicolas Malebranche
Nicolas Malebranche
French Philosopher
Born: Aug 6, 1638
Died: Oct 13, 1715
God Mind Speak World You Yourself
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
We are made to know and love God. Nicolas Malebranche
Love God Made Know
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings. Nicolas Malebranche
You Yourself Judge Will Imperfections Divine Never Him Limitations Judgments Unworthy Provided Dishonor Ascribe Them Created Beings Creator
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
Love Good Be Happy Happy Hate People Evil Pain Pleasure Those Angels Mistaken Am Demons Same Want Even Believing
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. Nicolas Malebranche
Eyes Light Our Minds See Conceive Ideas Just Order Need
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
God Alone Depend Reciprocal Immediate Alike Directly Him Another Equally Dependence Essentially Being Cannot Union United Creatures
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
Word Live Our Minds Earth Find Immutable Divine Feed Contains Truths Intelligible Same Substance Sustenance Fruits Which Bodies Produces
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
God You Words Speak Air Various Through He Makes Understand Sounds Affected Which
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion. Nicolas Malebranche
You Mind Understanding Our Please Thorough Vivacity Principles Always His Subject Beg Discussion Forget Stop Dwell Order Necessity Meditate
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
Faith Experience Feelings Pleasant Very Truths Authority Us Means Teach Many Connection Agreeable
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. Nicolas Malebranche
Old Thought Easily Longer Got Which Prejudices Rid Coat
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. Nicolas Malebranche
You Yourself Speak World Power Stupid Log Find Immovable Without Rock Any Wood

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