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Top 15 Michel Onfray Quotes (2025 Update)

Michel Onfray Quote: “What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn’t say, what one does and doesn’t do, what one thinks and doesn’t think.”

1. “What can a philosopher show for himself? His life. If someone writes a book, but it is not accompanied by a philosophical life, it is not worth our time. Wisdom is measured in details: it is found in what one says and doesn’t say, what one does and doesn’t do, what one thinks and doesn’t think.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “I have a big problem with Islam.”

2. “I have a big problem with Islam.”

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Michel Onfray Quote: “God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.”

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

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “Le capitalisme exploite. Et le capitalisme exploite les gens de couleur. Comme il exploite les hommes. Ou comme il exploite les femmes.”

4. “Le capitalisme exploite. Et le capitalisme exploite les gens de couleur. Comme il exploite les hommes. Ou comme il exploite les femmes.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.”

5. “Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.”

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Michel Onfray Quote: “Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.”

6. “Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.”

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Michel Onfray Quote: “If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.”

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

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Michel Onfray Quote: “Not having children derives not from dislike, but from love too great to bring them into this world, too limited, too vain, too cruel.”

8. “Not having children derives not from dislike, but from love too great to bring them into this world, too limited, too vain, too cruel.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “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 that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood – which are my ideals.”

9. “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 that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood – which are my ideals.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Michel Onfray Quote: “Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.”

11. “Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.”

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

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

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Michel Onfray Quote: “Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.”

13. “Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find nonviolent solutions, whereas Sartre called for violent conflicts and justified terror.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”

15. “You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “Religion is an irrational construct.”

16. “Religion is an irrational construct.”

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Michel Onfray Quote: “I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.”

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

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Michel Onfray Quote: “I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the comforting fairy tales of children to the cruel hard facts of adults. Better the faith that brings peace of mind than the rationality that brings worry – even at the price of perpetual mental infantilism. What a demonstration of metaphysical sleight of hand – and what a monstrous price!”

18. “I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the comforting fairy tales of children to the cruel hard facts of adults. Better the faith that brings peace of mind than the rationality that brings worry – even at the price of perpetual mental infantilism. What a demonstration of metaphysical sleight of hand – and what a monstrous price!”

— Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray Quote: “It’s almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!”

19. “It’s almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!”

— Michel Onfray

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