Nicolas Malebranche

"I am not my own light unto myself."

"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."

"It is not within our power not to desire to be happy."

"As to bad faith, Malebranche might argue it rests with inattention. Stupidity is not admissible. However the status of apprehension remains an issue."