Julien Offray de La Mettrie quotes:

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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 highly compatible.

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

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

  • The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

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

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

  • 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.

  • It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.

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

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

  • Love conquers everything even karma.

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

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