Occupation: Philosopher Birth: August 6, 1638 Death: October 13, 1715
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 worl….
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 ….
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 a….
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone..
One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it..
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe ….
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 c….
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you shou….
We are made to know and love God..
When I touch a human hand, I touch heaven..
I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those….
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do n….
I am not my own light unto myself..
God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by whic….
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood..
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of..
We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are..
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 con….
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 i….
Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul..
All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they ca….