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 Copy Share Image
The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Ihmisruumis on kone, joka vetää itse itsensä; se on alituisen liikkeen elävä kuva.” — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
“Man is so complicated a machine that it is impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand, and hence impossible to define… — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to… — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each other, and… — Julien Offray de La Mettrie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
