Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

“Ihmisruumis on kone, joka vetää itse itsensä; se on alituisen liikkeen elävä kuva.”

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

“Man is so complicated a machine that it is impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand, and hence impossible…

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same…

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best in each…

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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

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