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

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

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

They were all machines, he thought, just like La Mettrie had said in L'Homme Machine all those years ago. So he, Orphan, was a machine of flesh and blood, and Lucy, now, was made of something else, more complex perhaps- but they were the same and ...
They were in love.
Sometimes that was enough. — Lavie Tidhar

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

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 other, and highly compatible. — 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

The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity; and while the intellect of Germany and England moved leisurely in the lines of religious evolution, the mind of France leaped from the hot faith which had massacred the Huguenots to cold hostility with which La Mettrie, Helvetius, Holbach, and Diderot turned upon the religion of the fathers. — Will Durant

Nothing is absolutely unjust. There is no real equity, no total grandeur, no pure vice, no absolute crime. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie

Love conquers everything even karma. — Julien Offray De La Mettrie