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Michel Onfray
French
Philosopher
Born:
Jan 1
,
1959
Am
Believe
Like
People
Religion
You
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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.
Michel Onfray
Management
Believe
Libertarian
Allow
Federation
Because
Contract
Options
Interesting
Capital
Co-Operation
Based
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.
Michel Onfray
Hope
Joy
Paradise
Lose
Sense
Baby
Crib
Aiming
Mindless
Earth
Sight
Futility
Picked
Taken
Prospect
Beyond
His
Up
Getting
Afterlife
Aspiration
Present
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
Michel Onfray
You
Wind
Ambition
Fragrance
Dream
Cannot
Breeze
I found it amazing people can think that art must be connected to religion. Religion may give art themes, but there would still be art without religion. Bach is not proof that art exists.
Michel Onfray
Art
Religion
People
Amazing
Think
Bach
Must
Would
Proof
Give
Without
Still
Amazing People
Exists
May
Themes
Connected
Found
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
Michel Onfray
God
Reality
People
Face
Invented
Condition
Fiction
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.
Michel Onfray
Me
World
Citizen
Poverty
Country
Cares
Philosopher
Unmoved
Indifferent
Am
Disconnected
His
Unemployment
Committed
Hard
Imagine
Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
Michel Onfray
Religion
Tricks
Magic
About
Like
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.
Michel Onfray
Conversation
School
Discipline
Philosophy
High
High School
Both
Compulsory
Idealist
Line
Subject
Conducting
Establishment
Themselves
Teach
Elitist
University
We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Michel Onfray
Family
Our
Evolve
Environment
Genes
Conditions
Which
Religion is an irrational construct.
Michel Onfray
Religion
Construct
Irrational
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
Michel Onfray
Religion
Only
Purpose
Fact
In Fact
Reassurance
If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Michel Onfray
Suffering
Better
Cancer
Philosophy
Would
Would-Be
Hospitals
Patients
Hedonistic
Much
Include
Lives
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