About Quote by Michel Onfray Download Open image “Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.” — Michel Onfray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare About Like Magic Religion Tricks
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its fruits; a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Religion - religion, at best - at BEST - is like a lift in your shoe. If you need it for a while, and… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Religion is just a recurring simulation of the same idea. Which is all about control. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. — Christopher Hitchens 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
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