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

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Source : "The big questions". Philosophie magazine Interview. Translated by Isabelle Chaise, www.newstatesman.com. April 2007.

Michel Onfray

#Reality Quotes #People Quotes #Faces Quotes

“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”

Source : Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.”
“Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from.”
“As the sculptor devotes himself to wood and stone, I would devote myself to my soul.”
“I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.”
“Now all the myths that you have heard and that resonate with you, those are the elements from round about that you are building into a form in your life. The thing worth considering is how they relate to each other in your context, not how they relate to something out there-how they were relevant on the North American prairies or in the Asian jungles hundreds of years agon, but how they are relevant now-unless by contemplating their former meaning you can begin to amplify your own understanding of the role they play in your life.”
“To watch a sunset is to connect with the Divine.”
“Stores are the same everywhere; small downtowns are done. Not just in America, but globally. You hear the same music on every station, all our building materials look the same, and all our clothes look the same. But I thought that it couldn't be that simple, because Arizona is not Minnesota. There is this other reality, which is a reality of landscape.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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