One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old a… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason.

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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The soul is... but an empty word, of which no one has any idea, and which an enlightened man should use only to signify the part in us that thinks...

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One needs only eyes to see the necessary influence of old age on reason. - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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