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André Comte-Sponville (born 12 March 1952) is a French philosopher born in Paris, France.

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To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of atheism? That one does not mistake: that, to my mind, does not prove anything against atheism and much against religion. "The heart of a heartless world, said Marx, the soul of soulless conditions. " It is misery that makes religion, and it is why this one is miserable. Who would prohibit opium to a dying man? And what are we, out of oblivion or entertainment, anything else but dying?

Children, Heart, Mistake, Prove, World

The simple person lives the way he breathes, with no more effort or glory, with no more affectation and without shame Simplicity is freedom, buoyancy, transparency. As simple as the air, as free as the air The simple person does not take himself too seriously or too tragicallyHe has nothing to prove, since he has no appearances to keep up, and nothing to seek, since everything is before him. What is more simple than simplicity? What is lighter? It is the virtue of wise men and the wisdom of saints.

Lighter, Men, Shame, Simple, Wise

Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.

Complex, Complicated, Everything, Rose, Simple, Thinking

Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.

Actually, Animal, Humility, Think, Thinking, Way

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

Antidote, Fear, Imaginary, Life, Reality

Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

Brevity, Fragility, Live, Lives, Shadow, Vanishing

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