Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOULove can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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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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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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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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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 must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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The 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.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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