French - Philosopher | January 1, 1959 -
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
Michel Onfray
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Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.
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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.
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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.
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God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
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I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.
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It's hard for me to imagine a philosopher disconnected from the world, indifferent to the cares of his country, unmoved by poverty, unemployment: I am a committed citizen.
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I have a big problem with Islam.
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Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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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.
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