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We are made to know and love God.
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Nicolas Malebranche
philosopher, writer, theologian, pedagogue
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1638 – 1715
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian Catholic priest and rationalist philosopher. In his works, he sought to synthesise the thought of St. Augustine and Descartes, in order to demonstrate the active role of God in every aspect of the world. Malebranche is best known for his doctrines of vision in God, occasionalism and ontologism.
All Quotes by Nicolas Malebranche
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I am not my own light unto myself.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am — of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain — or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things … I have no idea whatever of my soul.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
— Nicolas Malebranche
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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