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Alain Badiou Quotes

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me Picture Quote #1

Without mathematics, we are blind Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism Picture Quote #1

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth Picture Quote #1

Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it’s not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this! Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We know that communism is the right hypothesis. 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. 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 Picture Quote #1

Love is not a contract between two narcissists Picture Quote #1

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death Picture Quote #1

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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise Picture Quote #1

Those who have nothing have only their discipline Picture Quote #1

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests Picture Quote #1

Art attests to what is inhuman in man Picture Quote #1

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. 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. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being Picture Quote #1

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism Picture Quote #1

The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. 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 Picture Quote #1

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure Picture Quote #1

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. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? 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 Picture Quote #1

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself Picture Quote #1

Love can only consist in failure... on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth Picture Quote #1

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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me (Alain Badiou Quotes) Without mathematics, we are blind (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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 Badiou Quotes) Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism (Alain Badiou Quotes) Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth. (Alain Badiou Quotes) Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it’s not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this! (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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 Badiou Quotes) We know that communism is the right hypothesis. 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 (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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. (Alain Badiou Quotes) The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. 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. (Alain Badiou Quotes) Love is not a contract between two narcissists (Alain Badiou Quotes) Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death (Alain Badiou Quotes) There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise (Alain Badiou Quotes) Those who have nothing have only their discipline (Alain Badiou Quotes) Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests (Alain Badiou Quotes) Art attests to what is inhuman in man (Alain Badiou Quotes) We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. 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. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being (Alain Badiou Quotes) I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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 Badiou Quotes) Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism (Alain Badiou Quotes) The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. 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 (Alain Badiou Quotes) In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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 (Alain Badiou Quotes) 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 (Alain Badiou Quotes) What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one? 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 (Alain Badiou Quotes) All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself (Alain Badiou Quotes) Love can only consist in failure... on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth (Alain Badiou Quotes)