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
• Creatures
• Rational

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

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• For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.

  

  Usain Bolt
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  • Always
  • Nervous

• A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.

  

  Jack Hanna
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• Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Perfection
  • Grave
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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.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Know
  • Reason
  • Fans

• People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Perfection
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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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Reason
  • Author

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

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

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Reason
  • Mad
  • Rage

• 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.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Incline

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Judged

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Progress
  • Virtue

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• 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.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• 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
  • Real
  • Why

• 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.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Want
  • Reason
  • Flying

• 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.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Life
  • Done
  • Practice

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

  

  Baird T. Spalding
  • Healing
  • Perfection
  • Awakening

• I'm such a copycat."I want to try and do this like the Donovan song 'Changes'," or "I want to do this bit from Van Morrison." I don't know how else to illustrate something, because I'm not a super-great musician. In that way, I'm more like the producer.

  

  Eleanor Friedberger
  • Changes
  • Musician
  • Producer

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

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Reason
  • Virtue
  • Order