Arbitrary Quote by 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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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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Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!

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