Top 3 Michel Onfray Quotes

French philosopher

Michel Onfray born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher.

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La puissance d'exister. Manifeste hedoniste, 2006

Why make children? In the name of what? To achieve what? What legitimizes pulling a being out of nothingness, disturbing its peace, only so that it would have to take a short walk on this planet, leading back to the nothingness from which it was pulled out?

Those childless by choice love children as much, if not more, than their fertile breeders. When asked why he does not have children, Thales replied, "because of my concern for children."