Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

I am what I feel and think and do.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

The thought is not something that observes an inner event, but, rather it is this inner event itself. We do not reflect on something, but, rather, something thinks itself in us.

I find that when I do not think of myself I do not think at all.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

A conscious mind is a mind with a self in it.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?

I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

I'm used to hearing myself. My own voice.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

People seem to know more about me than I do.

I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

We all know what we know. We experience with our minds and breath.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.