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.
ALAIN BADIOUWithout mathematics, we are blind.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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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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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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.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid.
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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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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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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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