Alain Badiou
Philosopher
1937-01-17
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher and writer known for his work in ontology, politics, and mathematics.
Quotes by Alain Badiou
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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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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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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
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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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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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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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Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
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