Michel Onfray Inspirational Quotes (8)

Religion is an irrational construct.

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.

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

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

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.

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

I have a big problem with Islam.