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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...

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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About Julien Offray de La Mettrie

(November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) 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 ().

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Alternative Names: La Mettrie

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If there is a revelation, it can not then contradict nature.

Let us not limit the resources of nature; they are infinite, especially when reinforced by great art.

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.

[H]e who has the most imagination should be regarded as having the most intelligence or genius, for all these words are synonymous... - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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