Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

Nicolas Malebranche

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• From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Humor
  • Explore

• We seem to think we have some control over this planet.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Think
  • Control
  • Seem

• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  

  Idi Amin
  • People
  • Country
  • Law

• The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionnaire to the Jewish nation asking if it wanted a Jewish state.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Freedom
  • Nation
  • Asking

• When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Believe
  • Imagination
  • Doing

• And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.

  

  Ferdowsi
  • Men
  • Black
  • Rain

• Literature has become too psychological.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Literature
  • Become
  • Too

• One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Will
  • Almost

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• There will be a sovereign Palestinian state, a sovereign Jewish state of Israel and those two states can, I think, will be able to deal with each other the same way all states do. I mean, you know, the United States and Canada has arguments once in a while, but they’re not the nature of arguments that can’t be solved diplomatically.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Nature

• Thank you all very much for coming out today.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Today

• Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to … juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear … Mother Goose rhymes.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

  

  Bill Kristol

• I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Long
  • Character
  • Job

• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Good

• The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Know

• The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need - this life is hell.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• When you're singing before 15,000 people at a summer concert outside, you need to look beautiful, because that's what people want.

  

  Anna Netrebko
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Singing

• 16 Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn't.

  

  Alan Perlis

• You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Good
  • May
  • Yoga

• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.

  

  Nicolas Malebranche
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Science