Michel Onfray quotes

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. (Michel Onfray)
Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage. View quote
Michel Onfray
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror. View quote
Michel Onfray
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. View quote
Michel Onfray
I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals. View quote
Michel Onfray
God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being; And so will those who deny him. View quote
Michel Onfray
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. View quote
Michel Onfray
I have a big problem with Islam. View quote
Michel Onfray
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. View quote
Michel Onfray
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teach the idealist line. They are conducting a conversation with themselves. View quote
Michel Onfray
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. (Michel Onfray)
I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation. View quote
Michel Onfray
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas. View quote
Michel Onfray
Religion is an irrational construct. View quote
Michel Onfray