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 BADIOUA 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.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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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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We have the riots we deserve.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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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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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and ‘natural’ character of the most monstrous inequalities.
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But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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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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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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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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