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

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Julien Offray De La Mettrie

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

- 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 t…

- 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 compati…

- Julien Offray De La Mettrie

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