Julien Offray de La Mettrie quotes
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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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“The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.”
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“Love conquers everything even karma.”
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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.”
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“Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.”
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“It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.”
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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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“Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!”
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“Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.”
-- Julien Offray de La MettrieSource : Julien Offray De La Mettrie (1912). “Man a Machine”
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“The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.”
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“The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.”
-- Julien Offray de La MettrieSource : L'Homme machine
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