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Julien Offray de La Mettrie Quotes: 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.


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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.



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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The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.




What's the problem?""You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.

What's the problem?""You. All shirtless and stuff. My dragon won't let me fight you." Oh, God. It was so embarrassing even admitting it.



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A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.



You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.

You can't cover people with perceptions because we are all different.



We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.

We didn't intend to hurt each other, and we don't have time to do so. Life is too short to blame others. It's now the past. I hope that everybody will do well in the long run.



The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.



From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.



You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others

You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others



Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.




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