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I have a big problem with Islam.
Michel Onfray / Philosopher
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Big Problem
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Religion is an irrational construct.
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Constructs
Irrational
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Religion is like magic. It is all about tricks.
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Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
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Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.
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You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition.
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Ambition
Breeze
Fragrance
Wind
Cannot
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God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
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People
Reality
Condition
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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Ideas
Philosophy
World
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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
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Caricatures
Causes
Clergy
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Secular
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I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
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Youth
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Wildly
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If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Michel Onfray / Philosopher
Cancer
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Hospitals
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Include
Patients
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We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.
Michel Onfray / Philosopher
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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 / Philosopher
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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.
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Unemployment
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World Me I Am
Citizen
Unmoved
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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.
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Amazing People
Connected
Proof
Bach
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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 / Philosopher
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Dialogue
Diplomacy
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Justified
Needs
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Solutions
Terror
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Nonviolent
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We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.
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Benevolence
Discourse
Good And Evil
Neutrality
Tolerate
Executioner
Lump
Magical
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We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is clear: the Jews invented it to endure the coherence, cohesion and existence of their small, threatened people.
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Coherence
Endure
Threatened
Worship
God Family People
Certificate
Jews
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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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University
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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.
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Afterlife
Aspiration
Futility
Mindless
Paradise
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Aiming
Crib
Picked
Prospect
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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.
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Atheist
Brotherhood
Concepts
Feminism
Ideals
Logic
Philosophy
Point Of View
Secularism
Writing
Utter
Constitute
Sworn
Talmud
Therefore
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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.
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Anarchist
Believe
Energy
Feminist
Nuclear
Nuclear Energy
Suffrage
Universal Suffrage
Believe I Am Me
Believe Me I Am
Defending
Feminists
Gm
Plants
Socialists
Sold
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Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.
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Greece
Luxury
Subjects
Alone Best I Am
Beggars
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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.
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Afterlife
Atheist
Philosophical
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How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when it is performed on little boys. Consensus on the point seems absolute. But ask your interlocutor to think about the validity of this surgical procedure, which consists of removing a healthy part of a nonconsenting child’s body on nonmedical grounds – the legal definition of… mutilation.
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Girl
Boys
Children
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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 name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted.
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Atheist
Book
Mother
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