Julien Offray de La Mettrie - Man a Machine

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

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

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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