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.

Religion is an irrational construct.

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

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.

I have a big problem with Islam.

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

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