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 MettrieThe English, who eat their meat red and bloody, show the savagery that goes with such food.
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 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