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 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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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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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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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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In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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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.
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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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