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 MettrieLet us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.
Julien Offray de La MettrieWho lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
Julien Offray de La MettrieIt is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie