“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.” MindBodyEarthProduceDivineFruitSubstanceSustenance Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“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.” MeanSoulFeelingsBodyTogetherLawMovementCommunicationConsequenceConjunctions Author: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.” MindTwoBodyNaturalDependenceIncessantlyReciprocalModificationConjunctions Book:Dialogues on Metaphysics Source: Dialogues on Metaphysics
“Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.” SoulBodyTermUnitedOrdinary Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.” WorldMindReasonBodyAttentionMaterialsContemplatingAnother WorldMaterial World Author:Nicolas Malebranche
