Michel Onfray quotes

Michel Onfray is a French philosopher known for his advocacy of hedonism, atheism, and secularism. His works challenge traditional philosophical and religious ideas through a materialist and libertarian lens. He has published numerous books and founded the tuition-free Université Populaire de Caen. Here are 14 of his quotes:

You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. (Michel Onfray)

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.

Michel Onfray

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.

Michel Onfray

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

Michel Onfray

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.

Michel Onfray

God will endure for as long as the reasons that brought him into being; And so will those who deny him.

Michel Onfray

If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.

Michel Onfray

I have a big problem with Islam.

Michel Onfray

Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

Michel Onfray

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.

Michel Onfray

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy. (Michel Onfray)

I believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, federation.

Michel Onfray

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Michel Onfray

Religion is an irrational construct.

Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: January 1, 1959
Quotes count: 14

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