Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
More Quotes from 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
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.
Nicolas Malebranche
I derive nothing whatever from my own nature, nothing from the nature imagined by the philosophers - all comes from God and His decrees.
Nicolas Malebranche
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.
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
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
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