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 BADIOUThose who have nothing have only their discipline.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis.
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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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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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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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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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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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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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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television.
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It must on the contrary be named.
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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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To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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