Quote of the day
You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
Alain Badiou
Born: January 17, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure and founder of the faculty of Philosophy of the Université de Paris VIII with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard.
Known for:
- Being and event (2001)
- The Communist Hypothesis (2010)
- The meaning of Sarkozy (2008)
- The Adventure of French Philosophy (2012)