But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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