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> [If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's no real difference between believing nothing matters and believing something matters.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/if-nothing-matters-then-even-the-thought-that-nothing-matters-doesn-t/)

[Ray Brassier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-brassier/)

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## More by Ray Brassier

> [If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/if-nothing-matters-then-even-the-thought-that-nothing-matters-doesn-t/)

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> [It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/it-was-kant-who-first-rejected-the-cartesian-premise-of-the-mind-s/)

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> [Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/nietzsche-saw-that-ultimately-the-problem-of-nihilism-is-the-problem/)

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> [I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/i-think-enlightenment-as-an-epistemic-ideal-involves-rejecting-the/)

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> [Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/psychoanalytic-categories-such-as-neurosis-psychosis-mania-and/)

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> [Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/correlationism-rejects-metaphysical-realism-understood-as-the-claim/)

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> [Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/philosophy-ought-to-be-able-to-give-an-account-of-rationality-that-is/)

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> [Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/philosophers-should-resist-the-temptation-to-be-publicly-virtuous/)

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> [Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/sellars-s-myth-of-jones-is-deployed-against-what-sellars-calls-the/)

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> [Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/consciousness-is-not-the-ineluctable-starting-point-for-self/)

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> [“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/nihilism-is-not-an-existential-quandary-but-a-speculative-opportunity/)

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> [Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/philosophy-would-do-well-to-desist-from-issuing-any-further/)

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> [I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/i-am-a-nihilist-because-i-still-believe-in-truth/)

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> [I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/i-was-trying-to-develop-a-notion-of-non-dialectical-negativity-as/)

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> [Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-brassier/like-many-i-suspect-i-found-the-difficulty-of-analytic-philosophy/)

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