Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create. — Nicolas Malebranche
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. — Nicolas Malebranche
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 — Nicolas Malebranche
As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces — Nicolas Malebranche
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon him and speak of him in an unworthy way — Nicolas Malebranche
He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul. — Nicolas Malebranche
This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. — Nicolas Malebranche
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles — 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. – — Nicolas Malebranche
Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another. — Nicolas Malebranche
