"Nicolas de Malebranche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... successor of Descartes in French philosophy, eminent in the second half of the century, was NICOLAS DE MALEBRANCHE (1638-1715). Soul and body, Descartes had shown, are in their very nature alien each from the other. How then does the soul attain a knowledge of the external world? In God, the absolute substance, are the ideas of all things; in God we behold those ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden |
