“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.” ThinkingIdeasSoulPainSufferingTurnsPassionAwarenessCapacityRelationMy SoulNo IdeaMutualFacultySensationsMy ThoughtsMy PassionSensory Author:Nicolas Malebranche
“Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.” SoulNaturalPrayerAttentionAttentiveness 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
“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
