The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an ‘ethics of communication’. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
ALAIN BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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It 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.
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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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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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