Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

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.

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

We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.

We are made to know and love God.

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

Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.