Quote of Nicolas Malebranche: In this connection, faith and experience...
Biography - Nicolas Malebranche:
French philosopher.
Born: 1638 - Died: 1715
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1638 - Died: 1715
Period:
18th century
17th century
Place of birth: France
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
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Quotes for: experience
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Quotes for: Feeling
Our deeds, our feelings, our thoughts, and our sensations just happen of themselves, as the rain falls and the water flows along the valley.
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Quotes for: authority
Article III – The principle of any sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation. No body, no individual can exert authority which does not emanate expressly from it.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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