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

- Michel Onfray

How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should rev…

- 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; …

- Michel Onfray

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

- Michel Onfray

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw…

- Michel Onfray

The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the …

- 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 t…

- Michel Onfray

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

- 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 teac…

- Michel Onfray