Julien Offray de La Mettrie citáty

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„I studium má koneckonců své extáze jako láska.“

„Necítí nic, protože cítí příliš silně.“

„Duch špatně vedený je jako herec zkažený venkovskou scénou.“

„Lidské tělo je stroj, který sám natahuje své pružiny, živý obraz nepřetržitého pohybu.“

“[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.”

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

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

“[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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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