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.

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  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.

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  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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• Existe un vínculo especial entre las almas gemelas: amor incondicional, respeto mutuo, sacar lo mejor del otro y gran compatibilidad.

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  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!

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  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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