Michel Onfray Quotes

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

Michel Onfray

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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.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• 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.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• 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.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Nature
  • You
  • Games

• 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.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Party

• The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Mind
  • Development
  • Intuition

• Take me or leave me, I'll never be perfect. Believe me I'm worth it

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Believe
  • Perfect
  • Humble

• Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

  

  Damien Fahey
  • Bible
  • Forget
  • Argument

• 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".

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Children
  • Love
  • Parents

• It's always nice being wanted. Even if it's by the wrong person.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
  • Nice

• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Artist
  • Moment

• Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• 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.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • People
  • Done
  • Husband

• 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.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Game
  • Play
  • Football

• 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.

  

  Marco Polo
  • People
  • School
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Truth
  • Society

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Help
  • Respect

• In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Chains

• At first glance, an alliance of anarchists and government might appear to be somewhat paradoxical. But the formal convergence in Oakland makes explicit the movement's aims: They're anarchists for statism, wild free-spirited youth demanding more and more total government control of every aspect of life - just so long as it respects the fundamental human right to sloth.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Life
  • Long
  • Free

• To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Mad
  • Movements
  • Braid

• Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.

  

  Mickey Drexler
  • Single
  • Everyday
  • Curiosity

• Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

  

  Michel Onfray
  • Causes
  • Secular
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