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.
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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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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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 absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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