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Nicolas Malebranche

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“[…] comme les yeux ont besoin de lumière pour voir, et que cette lumière dépend de causes étrangères, l’esprit aussi a besoin d’idées pour concevoir; et ces idées, comme on l’a prouvé ailleurs, ne dépendent point de nous, mais d’une cause étrangère, qui nous les donne néanmoins en conséquence de notre attention.”

Nicolas Malebranche De la recherche de la vérité

De la recherche de la vérité, 1674-1675

Nicolas Malebranche: Citations en anglais

“The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am — of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain — or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things … I have no idea whatever of my soul.”

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Nicolas Malebranche

Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
Contexte: I am unable, when I turn to myself, to recognize any of my faculties or my capacities. The inner sensation which I have of myself informs me that I am, that I think, that I will, that I have sensory awareness, that I suffer, and so on; but it provides me with no knowledge whatever of what I am — of the nature of my thought, my sensations, my passions, or my pain — or the mutual relations that obtain between all these things … I have no idea whatever of my soul.

“I am not my own light unto myself.”

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Nicolas Malebranche

Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
Variant translation: I am not a light unto myself.