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

~Michel Onfray

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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

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We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

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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 am a committed citizen.

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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.

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By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

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

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

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I have a big problem with Islam.

~Michel Onfray

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Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: January 1st, 1959

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