"Malebranche" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said: "O Malebranche, Behold one of the elders of Saint Zita; Plunge him beneath, ...
— Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell • Dante Alighieri
... the illustrious Malebranche at Paris, he found him in his cell, cooking in a small pipkin a medicine for an inflammation of the lungs, from which he was suffering; and the disease, being unfortunately aggravated by the vehemence ...
— Medical Essays • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... Bossuet, who revised for him his next book, a "Refutation of the System of Malebranche concerning Nature and Grace." His next book, written just before the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, opposed the lawfulness of the ministrations of the Protestant clergy; and after the Edict, Fenelon was, ...
— The Existence of God • Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon
... the streets of Syracuse, crying out, "I have found it!" Why? The flash of genius has visited him unexpectedly. Pythagoras discovers a geometrical theorem; and he offers, it is said, a sacrifice to the gods, in testimony of his gratitude. He thought therefore, according to the fine remark of Malebranche, that labor and attention are a silent prayer which we address to the Master of truth: the labor is a prayer, and the discovery is ...
— The Heavenly Father - Lectures on Modern Atheism • Ernest Naville
... engage, Boileau the enthusiast for allegory. France was infected with the mathematical spirit of Cartesianism and all possibility of a serious consideration of poetry and of art was thus removed. Witness the diatribes of Malebranche against the imagination, and listen to the Italian, Antonio Conti, writing from France in 1756 on the theme of the literary disputes that were raging at the time: "They have introduced the method of ...
— Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic • Benedetto Croce
... history of the German marine by Bartholdy, twelve letters by John Voigt on the manners and social life of the princes at the German Diets, a picture from the XVIth Century, the sequel of a memoir by Guhrauer on Elizabeth, Abbess of Herford, a friend of William Penn, and a correspondent of Malebranche, Leibnitz and Descartes, ...
— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various |
