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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.

Alain Badiou

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Atheist Inhuman Main
The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Certainly Effect Imaginary Real Reflection Since
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’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contact Love Narcissist Two
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

False Grant Nothing Property Quite Sense Separate Simply Speak Whereof
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.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
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
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOU

Deserve Riot We
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
ALAIN BADIOU

Death Impossible Like Love Risk War Without
We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
ALAIN BADIOU

Discipline Euclidian Invent Mathematics Need Political Respect
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
ALAIN BADIOU

Ethics Eventually General Only Possibility Process Situation Treat
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 BADIOU

Connect Limit Narcissistic Other Pleasure Sexual Yourself
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOU

But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
ALAIN BADIOU

Engagement Figure Great Love Politics Two

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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