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.

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.

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.

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.