Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUTruth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
ALAIN BADIOUIt 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 BADIOUWe have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOULiberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUWhat is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
ALAIN BADIOUWe 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 BADIOUThe aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
ALAIN BADIOUQuite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOUThe absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUIn 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 BADIOUWhat 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 BADIOUThe aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOUIn fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
ALAIN BADIOULove 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 BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
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