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- Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. — 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
- You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. — 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
- 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
- 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