Quotes by Nicolas Malebranche

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)

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)

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. (Nicolas Malebranche)

God has linked together all His works, though He has not on that account produced in them entities charged with the function of union. (Nicolas Malebranche)

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)

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. (Nicolas Malebranche)

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)

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)

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

We are made to know and love God. (Nicolas Malebranche)