The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUIt must on the contrary be named.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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