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 -… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece,… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“For the first time (but how long will it take us to acknowledge this?) in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition. — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
