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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

— Nicolas Malebranche

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

— Morris West

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

— Ayn Rand

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

— Edith Hamilton

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

— Huston Smith

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

— Dennis Banks

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

— Charles Fillmore

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

— John Jewel

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.

— Johannes Tauler

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

— Richard Powers

✗Opposing Perspectives

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

— Nikos Kazantzakis