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Julien Offray de La Mettrie Quotes: 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!


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



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.



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.



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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I understand the sacred words of the sacred souls.

I understand the sacred words of the sacred souls.



Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?



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Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.



People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.

People have a tendency to become elite rather than to care about the general conditions of the society, which makes me sick. It's an unbearable condition.



Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!

Declare independence, don't let them do that to you!



In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.



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Make not thyself the judge of any man.



By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.

By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.




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