You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
Nicolas MalebrancheI do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
Nicolas MalebrancheGod transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.
Nicolas Malebranche