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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan's anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called 'contemporary philosophers'.

— Alain Badiou

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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

If the establishment of the thesis 'mathematics is ontology' is the basis of this book, it is in no way its goal.

Being and Event (1988)

Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

Ethics defines man as a victim.

Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (2000)

Everything turns on mastering the gap between the presupposition (that must be rejected) of a being of the one and the thesis of its 'there is'.

Being and Event (1988)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
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All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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