Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Body

Julien Offray de La Mettrie was French physician and philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on body.
Julien Offray de La Mettrie: 84 quotes2 likes

“We know in bodies only matter, and we observe the faculty of feeling only in bodies: on what foundation then can we erect an ideal being, disowned by all our knowledge?”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

“[T]he, diverse states of the soul are always correlative with those of the body.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie book Man a Machine

p, 125
Man a Machine (1747)

“Ancient philosophy will always hold its own among those who are worthy to judge it, because it forms… a system that is solid and well articulated like the body, whereas all these scattered members of modern philosophy form no system.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

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

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Source: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter, p.156

“The soul follows the progress of the body, as it does the progress of education.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie book Man a Machine

p, 125
Man a Machine (1747)

“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.”

Julien Offray de La Mettrie book Man a Machine

Man a Machine (1747)

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

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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