Michel Onfray Quotes
Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.
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The more playoff games and Super Bowls and things of that nature that you're in obviously is going to build your portfolio and raise your visibility.
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I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
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Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it
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Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.
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Little children require their parent's unqualified love in order to survive and feel secure. Very soon, however, they need a tempered version of that devotion- parents who can give them the freedom to fail or feel sorrow or taste frustration, to fully experience their own pain and pleasure and learn from them. Therapists call this phenomenon "ownership".
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It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.
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I was trained by my husband. He said, If you want a thing done go. If not send. I belong to that group of people who move the piano themselves.
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I'm just going to try to go out there and play well. Obviously my concerns are about this game against Carolina. I don't have to do anything that's not there and is not going to be open. You have to hit the guys and play smart football.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking.
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Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.
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I am over the moon! We are both over the moon and will be even more so when this is over.
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Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
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In 1855, a former American slave remarked: "Tisn't he who has stood and looked on, that can tell you what slavery is - tis he who has endured."I think the same holds true for women's rights. The incredulity in the question, "What rights don't women have presently that they are marching about?" reflects a troubling disconnect that comes from power and privilege.
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The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.
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Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway
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Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.
