Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
Julien Offray de La MettrieLet us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
Julien Offray de La MettrieTherefore, 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.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie