Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Nicolas Malebranche

• Reason
• Virtue
• Order
• Perfection
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• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

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• For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

  

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• When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

  

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

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• Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

  

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• For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

  

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• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

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• Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

  

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• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

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• I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

  

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  • Life
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• I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

  

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• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  

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• Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

  

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• Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

  

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• As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.

  

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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  

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• I think I'm getting better as a basketball player.

  

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• I use color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express myself powerfully.

  

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  • Color
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• The truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

  

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  • Truth
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• We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Reason
  • Virtue
  • Order