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.
Julien Offray de La MettrieMan is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.
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 Mettrie