"It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make……" — 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."
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10 Quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.
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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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Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach…
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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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Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
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There is a special bond between twin soul mates - unconditional love, respect for each other, bringing out the best…
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Love conquers everything even karma.
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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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