Nicolas Malebranche Quotes

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.

O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within... Nothing is more essential to us.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams.

No one knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart... it comes from being alive.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

I believe in everything. I believe that everything is an illusion, and everything is there to be believed in.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind.

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Mind is the creator of everything.

We've been proceeding so long on the plane of consciousness, we don't realize we are spiritual beings. Our minds, our senses, and the society around us all say, "Come on, you're getting into fantasy.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

Matter is merely mind deadened by the development of habit to the point where the breaking up of these habits is very difficult.

The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.