Whatever the virtue may be, from whatever source it may com… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

" "
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.

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

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.

Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden.

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

Whatever the virtue may be, from whatever source it may come, it is worthy of esteem... Mind, beauty, wealth, nobility, although the children of chan… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

About Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Also Known As

Limited Time Offer

Additional quotes by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Unlimited Quote Collections