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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it’s narcissistic. You don’t connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou
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Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin She now finds solace in vanilla-scented daydreams, as her soul sings away in a musical symphony of humid breaths and well-favored smiles.
Megan LaoMegan Lao Some things won’t change-some things can’t.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry My blood is fifty percent alcohol the other half was you.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Darling, you don’t fear love, you fear of loving wrong.
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteSidonie Gabrielle Colette Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
Alan KayAlan Kay It’s always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone.
Alain ProstAlain Prost I contact Allah the Holy the Merciful on a daily basis.
Al-Saadi GaddafiAl-Saadi Gaddafi Only brand names register in the mind… What you should generally do is take a regular word and use it out of context to connote the primary attribute of your brand.
Al RiesAl Ries A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
Al GoldsteinAl Goldstein We should also leave behind discrimination, because it is narrow-minded and ignorant, denies contact and warmth; and corrodes mankind’s belief that we can better ourselves.
Ai WeiweiAi Weiwei All that has really happened is that Al Qaeda has escaped from Afghanistan come into Pakistan, got in touch with their contacts and friends.
Ahmed RashidAhmed Rashid
