Alain Badiou on compet
Alain Badiou52 quotes“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
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Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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 BadiouAlain Badiou Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Alain BadiouAlain Badiou 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.
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TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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