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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.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Mind Ontology Philosophy Politics Resistance Theory

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Compulsion Evil Good Strength

Christianity grasped perfectly that there is an element in the apparent contingency of love that can’t be reduced to that contingency. But it immediately raised it to the level of transcendence, and that is the root of the problem. This universal element I too recognize in love as immanent. But Christianity has somehow managed to elevate it and refocus it onto a transcendent power. It’s an ideal that was already partly present in Plato, through the idea of the Good. It is a brilliant first manipulation of the power of love and one we must now bring back to earth. I mean we must demonstrate that love really does have universal power, but that it is simply the opportunity we are given to enjoy a positive, creative, affirmative experience of difference. The Other, no doubt, but without the “Almighty-Other”, without the “Great Other” of transcendence.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Christianity Difference God Identity Love Otherness Religion The Other Transcendence

I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencounter, a trifle, you learn that you can experience the world on the basis of difference and not only in terms of identity. And you can even be tested and suffer in the process. In today’s world, it is generally thought that individuals only pursue their own self-interest. Love is an antidote to that. Provided it isn’t conceived only as an exchange of mutual favours, or isn’t calculated way in advance as a profitable investment, love really is a unique trust placed in chance. It takes us into key areas of the experience of what is difference and, essentially, leads to the idea that you can experience the world from the perspective of difference. In this respect it has universal implications: it is an individual experience of potential universality, and is thus central to philosophy, as Plato was the first to intuit.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Chance Difference Identity Love Otherness Philosophy Universal

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Consolation Ethics

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Ethics

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

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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

~ Alain Badiou

Alain Badiou Badiou Discipline Subalternity
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