Who lives as a citizen, may write as a philosopher - but write as a philosopher, it is to teach materialism!
Julien Offray de La MettrieThe 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 Mettrie