Julien Offray de La Mettrie Quotes

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

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Men, Humanity, Machines

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• 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

  Spring, Wind, Machines

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

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Psychics, Knowing, Matter

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

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Thinking, Brain, Legs

  L'Homme machine

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

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  Ignorance, Invincible, Submit

  Julien Offray De La Mettrie (1912). “Man a Machine”

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

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  Real, Vices, Unjust

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• 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

  Honesty, Thinking, Long

  Julien Offray De La Mettrie (1912). “Man a Machine”

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• 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

  Vices, Arbitrary, Rewards

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• 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

  Soulmate, Unconditional Love, Special

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• Love conquers everything even karma.

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Karma, Conquer

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• 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

  Writing, Citizens, May

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

  Julien Offray de La Mettrie

  Insulting, Meat, Red

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