The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny.
ALAIN BADIOUPolitics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.
More Alain Badiou Quotes
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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.
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But 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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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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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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In order to improve democracy, then, it’s necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
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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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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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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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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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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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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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