Alain Badiou on after
Alain Badiou52 quotes“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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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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Without mathematics, we are blind.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Lou HoltzLou Holtz My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.
Nick SabanNick Saban Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity.
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