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 to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.
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
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
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better. - Michel Onfray
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
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 believe in libertarian options because they allow an interesting management of the capital and are based on co-operation, reciprocity, contract, fe…
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
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; …
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
I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw…
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks. - Michel Onfray
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
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
Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for …
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
For the establishment, philosophy is both an elitist and an idealist discipline: In high school, it is a compulsory subject; at university, they teac…
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
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 …
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