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Man is a machine and... in the whole universe there is but a single substance variously modified.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The brain has muscles for thinking as the legs have muscles for walking.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Let us then submit to an invincible ignorance on which our happiness depends.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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 Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Born: November 23, 1709

Died: November 11, 1751 (aged 41)

Bio: Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine.

Known for:

Man a Machine
Discours sur le bonheur
L' homme-plante (1748)

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