De La Mettrie Quotes & Sayings

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

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Nothing grows in the shadow of want without the sunlight of acknowledging your fullness. — Bryant McGill

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

No fair! Those guys ripped off what we rightfully stole! — Gordon Korman

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

Ronnie offered, "I don't want my life to pass me by."
Filling Ronnie's glass again, Sissy promised, "It won't."
"It's already started. It's whizzing by like a freight train. — Shelly Laurenston

Love conquers everything even karma. — 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

Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor. — Anthony Doerr

Maybe we become New Yorkers the day we realize that New York will go on without us. — Colson Whitehead

My body would cry
from all it felt
and all it couldn't. — David Levithan

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 in the nature of any effort to leave something serviceable behind it. — Mary Butts

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. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

You shouldn't take this job too seriously. Except for when you should. — Hope Jahren

Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now. — Matt Bird

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