List of Michel Onfray Quotes

Many Militants Of The Secular Cause Look Astonishingly Like Clergy. Worse: Like Caricatures Of Clergy.

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.

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.

How Strange That Excision – Female Circumcision, With Several Languages Using The Same Term For Both Kinds Of Mutilation – Of Little Girls Should Revolt The Westerner But Excite No Disapproval When It Is Performed On Little Boys. Consensus On The Point Seems Absolute. But Ask Your Interlocutor To Think About The Validity Of This Surgical Procedure, Which Consists Of Removing A Healthy Part Of A Nonconsenting Child’s Body On Nonmedical Grounds – The Legal Definition Of… Mutilation.

Religion Is Like Magic. It Is All About Tricks.

I Discovered Philosophy In My Youth When I Read Wildly, And Thus I Was Exposed To The World Of Ideas.

Religion Is An Irrational Construct.

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.

I Believe In Libertarian Options Because They Allow An Interesting Management Of The Capital And Are Based On Co-operation, Reciprocity, Contract, Federation.

I Have A Big Problem With Islam.

If We Include Hedonistic Philosophy In Hospitals, The Lives Of Patients Suffering From Cancer Would Be Much, Much Better.

I Persist In Preferring Philosophers To Rabbis Priests Imams Ayatollahs And Mullahs. Rather Than Trust Their Theological Hocus-pocus I Prefer To Draw On Alternatives To The Dominant Philosophical Historiography: The Laughers Materialists Radicals Cynics Hedonists Atheists Sensualists Voluptuaries. They Know That There Is Only One World And That Promotion Of An Afterlife Deprives Us Of The Enjoyment And Benefit Of The Only One There Is. A Genuinely Deadly Sin.