What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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It must on the contrary be named.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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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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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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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.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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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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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.
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