Julien Offray De La Mettrie Quotes

#1. The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#2. The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#3. Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#4. Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#5. Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#6. It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#7. Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#8. The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#9. Love conquers everything even karma.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#10. There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and highly compatible.

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#11. Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#12. Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie