La Mettrie Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The fate of man does not chase him as much as he chases his fate.

Raheel Farooq

#3. Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.

Lope De Vega

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#6. An ugly woman with a gun is a terrible thing.

Ross Macdonald

#7. This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.

George W. Bush

#8. I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

Edmond Rostand

#9. I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Tom Stoppard

#10. These heels are candy for the feet; they're for pleasure, not practicality.

Christian Louboutin

#11. 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.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#12. Love conquers everything even karma.

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#13. This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd!

Fabian

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. Living on hope is like being hungry all the time.

Faith Sullivan

#19. 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

#20. I like to try new things.

Rufus Wainwright

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#22. She said I was a monster, and for a long time I believed her. But you made me feel like a man, someone worthy of being loved. Then you went away, and I had nothing, nothing but a
hopeless demon inside.

N.D. Jones

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

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

Julien Offray De La Mettrie

#25. God never intended true humility to be a fabric softener for our aspirations. We aren't to be ambitious for our own honor or glory. But we are to be ambitious for God's honor and glory, radically so.

Matt Perman