Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUThe 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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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’.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.
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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
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