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• Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Men, Inhuman

  "Le siècle". Book by Alain Badiou, 2005.

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Plato, Philosophical, Order

  "Plato, Our Dear Plato!". Magazine littéraire, no. 447, November 2005.

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• The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

  Alain Badiou

  Art, Cinema

  Alain Badiou (2005). “Infinite Thought”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Without mathematics, we are blind.

  Alain Badiou

  Blind, Mathematics

  Alain Badiou (2015). “Theoretical Writings”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Ethics, Possibility, Process

  Alain Badiou (2002). “Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil”, p.16, Verso

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Simple, Today

  "Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou by Bruno Bosteels". "Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions", Book edited by Gabriel Riera, 2005.

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Transition

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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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'.

  Alain Badiou

  Philosophy, Views, Philosopher

  Alain Badiou (2015). “Theoretical Writings”, p.113, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Party, Discipline, Political

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Speak, Silent, Grants

  Alain Badiou (1999). “Manifesto for Philosophy”, p.95, SUNY Press

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Mean, Miracle, Events

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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.

  Alain Badiou

  Ignorance, Media, Television

  Alain Badiou (2009). “The meaning of Sarkozy”, Verso Books

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• Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).

  Alain Badiou

  Europe, Truth Is, Elsewhere

  Alain Badiou, Oliver Feltham (2007). “Being and Event”, p.3, A&C Black

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