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 BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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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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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
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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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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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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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I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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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.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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