Without mathematics, we are blind.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
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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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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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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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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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