Quotes by Alain Badiou - Page 1

We have the riots we deserve.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Deserve
Riot
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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Blind
Mathematics
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Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
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Art
Men
Inhuman
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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Elsewhere
Europe
Truth Is
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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Love Is
Narcissist
Two
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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War
Impossibility
Risk
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There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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Kind
Paradise
Serenity
Almost
Which
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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Art
Cinema
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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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Being True
Evil
Moments
Be True
Compels
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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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Assured
Facts
Feels
Women Always Feel
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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Evil
Individual
Particular
Pressure
Interests
Interruption
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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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Democracy
Order
People
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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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Oneself
Resistance
Rupture
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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Capitalism
Contrary
Destructive
Humanity
Nihilism
Savages
Vehicle
Quite
Liberal
Savage
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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Ethics
Possibility
Process
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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.
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Assumption
Productions
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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.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Limits
Narcissistic
Want
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Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
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Impossible
Seems
Situation
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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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Defeated
Encounters
Victory
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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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Philosopher
Philosophy
Views
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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.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Chance
Declaration
Fright
Stage
Stage Fright
Burdened
Horrifying
Marks
Perilous
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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 / Philosopher
Love Is
Old Man
Love Work Love Is
Love Work Man
Finding
Involves
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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 / Philosopher
Love Is
People
Two
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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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Communication
Opposites
Real
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These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
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Ignorance
Media
Television
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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. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
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Discipline
Party
Political
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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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Enemy
Hands
Order
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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. It must on the contrary be named.
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Grants
Silent
Speak
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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.
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Destiny
Encounters
Transition
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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.
Alain Badiou / Philosopher
Creation
Development
Humanity
Order
Pure
Subjective
Truth Is
Unforeseen
According
Rightly
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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? 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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Believe
Two
Views
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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Causes
Examination
Political
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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.
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Character
Communism
Democracy
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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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Car
Men
Believe
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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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Adventure
Giving Up
Real
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I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, 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, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment.
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Mean
Simple
Today
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Let us say in passing that since (philosophical) remedies are often worse than the malady, our age, 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.
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Order
Philosophical
Plato
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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. 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.
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Art
Real
Reflection
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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.
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Events
Mean
Miracle
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