Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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