Fuente: Diálogos sobre la metafísica (1688). Diálogo III
Frases célebres de Nicolás Malebranche
Fuente: Nicolas Malebranche: Oeuvres, Vol. 2, 292g. Trans. J. L. Heilbron. Citado en: Electricity in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Study of Early Modern Physics (1979), 42.
“Yo no soy mi propia luz para mí mismo.”
Variante: «Yo no soy una luz para mí mismo».
Fuente: Diálogos sobre la metafísica (1688). Diálogo III.
“La imaginación es la loca de la casa.”
Fuente: Citado en: José Fumagalli, ¿Quién dijo eso?, Hoepli, 1921, p. 242
Nicolás Malebranche: Frases en inglés
Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
Contexto: 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.”
Dialogues on Metaphysics (1688) Dialogue III
Variant translation: I am not a light unto myself.