12 Quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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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.
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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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The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.
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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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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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The English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
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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 think that atheism does not exclude it.
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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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