39 Quotes by Michel Onfray

Os homens não podem dispor de uma capacidade para o prazer para que ela seja depreciada, proibida e reprimida.

En este universo de redes liberales poderosas, constuyamos utopías concretas, islotes pensados como abadías de Thelema puntales y reproducibles en todas partes, en todas las ocasiones y circunstancias. Jardines de Epicuro nómadas, construidos desde uno mismo

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.

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.

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.

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.

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.