black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Alain Badiou

We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOU

Deserve Riot We
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Have Nothing Only
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOU

Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two
It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
ALAIN BADIOU

Euclid Like Mathematics Out-moded Party Say
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOU

Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
ALAIN BADIOU

Concern Event Material Miracle Must Point
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOU

Compet Evil Good Lack Moment Strength
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

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Atheist Inhuman Main
Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
ALAIN BADIOU

Assumption Consist Failure Fallacious Love Relationship
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOU

Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat
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 BADIOU

Bed Cure Democratic Light Relativist Sick Skeptical Spiritual Suppose Swallow Vaguely

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alain Badiou Quotes