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Julien Offray de La Mettrie Quotes: Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
         

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


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

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



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

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



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

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



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

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.

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.



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.

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.



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

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



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

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



Love conquers everything even karma.

Love conquers everything even karma.



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

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





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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.



My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet to be humble to realise that all of this that I have today could be gone.



As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.

As six-time world karate champion and then a movie star, I put too much trust in who I was, what I could do, and what I acquired. I forgot how much I needed others and especially God.



You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.



perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.



Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.



I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.



The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.




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