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Julien Offray de La Mettrie Quotes: 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.


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



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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.



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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.



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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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.



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All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.



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