Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
Michel OnfrayI discovered philosophy in my youth when I read wildly, and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.
Michel OnfrayIf we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.
Michel OnfrayHow 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.
Michel Onfray