A mere nothing, a tiny fibre, something that could never be… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

" "
A mere nothing, a tiny fibre, something that could never be found by the most delicate anatomy, would have made of Erasmus and Fontenelle two idiots, and Fontenelle himself speaks of this very fact in one of his best dialogues.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

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 ().

Also Known As

Alternative Names: La Mettrie

All quotes from Julien Offray de La Mettrie Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Julien Offray de La Mettrie:

Immanuel Kant David Hume Henri Bergson Ralph Waldo Emerson Thomas Henry Huxley

Additional quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

A geometrician has learned to perform the most difficult demonstrations and calculations, as a monkey has learned to take his little hat off and on...

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.

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.

A mere nothing, a tiny fibre, something that could never be found by the most delicate anatomy, would have made of Erasmus and Fontenelle two idiots,… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

About Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Also Known As

Enhance Your Quote Experience

Additional quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Enhance Your Quote Experience