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 BADIOUBut more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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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.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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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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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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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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