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Julien Jean Offray de La Mettrie, né à Saint-Malo le 12 décembre 1709 et mort le 11 novembre 1751 à Potsdam, est un médecin et philosophe matérialiste et empiriste français.

Médecin libertin, il défendit un matérialisme radical, et refonda, après René Descartes, le mécanisme. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. décembre 1709 – 11. novembre 1751  •  Autres noms Julien Offroy De La Mettrie
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“Heureux qui a du goût pour l’étude! Plus heureux qui réussit à délivrer par elle son esprit de ses illusions et son cœur de sa vanité; but désirable où vous avez été conduit dans un âge encore tendre par les mains de la sagesse; tandis que tant de pédants, après un demi-siècle de veilles et de travaux, plus courbés sous le faix des préjugés que sous celui du temps, semblent avoir tout appris, excepté à penser.”

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“[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous…”

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie livre Man a Machine

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Man a Machine (1747)

“[M]an… whatever the origin of his soul, if it is pure, noble, and lofty, it is a beautiful soul which dignifies the man endowed with it.”

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Man a Machine (1747)

“[A] brilliant man is his own best company, unless he can find other company of the same sort.”

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“What was man before the invention of words and the knowledge of language? An animal..”

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Man a Machine (1747)

“[T]he sciences that are expressed by numbers or by other small signs, are easily learned; and… this facility rather than its demonstrability is what has made the fortune of algebra.”

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“As a violin string or a harpsichord key vibrates and gives forth sound, so the cerebral fibres, struck by waves of sound, are stimulated to render or repeat the words that strike them.”

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“The mind, like the body, has its contagious diseases and its scurvy. …[W]e catch everything from those with whom we come in contact; their gestures, their accent, etc.”

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie livre Man a Machine

Man a Machine (1747)

“The human body is a machine which winds its own springs.”

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“Whatever the virtue may be, from whatever source it may come, it is worthy of esteem… Mind, beauty, wealth, nobility, although the children of chance, all have their own value, as skill, learning and virtue have theirs.”

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“[E]ither everything is illusion, nature as well as revelation, or experience alone can explain faith.”

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“[I]magination is the soul, since it plays all the roles of the soul.”

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“The ancients, persuaded that there is no body without a moving force, regarded the substance of bodies as composed of two primitive attributes.”

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It was held that, through one of these attributes, this substance has the capacity for moving and, through the other, the capacity for being moved.
Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

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