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.
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
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
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. - Alain Badiou
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise. - Alain Badiou
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
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 s… - Alain Badiou
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 s…
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 … - Alain Badiou
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 …
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation. - Alain Badiou
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. - Alain Badiou
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death. - Alain Badiou
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
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 min… - Alain Badiou
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 min…
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