Nicolas Malebranche Quotes on God
Nicolas Malebranche was a French Oratorian priest and one of the most original Cartesian philosophers of the seventeenth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Nicolas Malebranche on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nicolas Malebranche:
“We see all things in God.”
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Attributed to Nicolas Malebranche:
“There is only one true cause, because there is only one true God.”
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Attributed to Nicolas Malebranche:
“Attention is the natural prayer of the soul.”
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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.”
Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III