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Nicolas Malebranche
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“I am not my own light unto myself.”
Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) first seen 1688 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
“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.”
Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) first seen 1688 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
“It is not within our power not to desire to be happy.”
Nicolas Malebranche (1638–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source