Top 12 Quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

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

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

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

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Thinking, Brain, Legs

L'Homme machine

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

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Ignorance, Invincible, Submit

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

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

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”

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

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