Julien Offray de La Mettrie famous quotes

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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
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
Love conquers everything even karma.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Karma #Conquer
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
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
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
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Real #Vices #Unjust
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
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Ignorance #Invincible #Submit
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
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.
-- Julien Offray de La Mettrie

#Thinking #Brain #Legs

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