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 BADIOUI feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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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.
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let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
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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.
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The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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