Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alain Badiou
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: January 17
Editor
Mathematician
Novelist
Philosopher
Playwright
Sociologist
University Teacher
New Sallee
Chance
Transition
Contingency
Kind
Absolutes
Perilous
Love
Absolute
Burdened
Appearance
Fright
Mark
Marks
Destiny
Encounter
Stage
Declaration
Takes
Encounters
Horrifying

More quotes by Alain Badiou

Image
Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.
Alain Badiou
Image
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.
Alain Badiou
Image
Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
Alain Badiou
Image
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.
Alain Badiou
Image
Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.
Alain Badiou
Image
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
Image
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.
Alain Badiou
Image
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Alain Badiou
Image
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
Alain Badiou
Image
Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
Alain Badiou
Image
Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
Alain Badiou
Image
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
Alain Badiou
Image
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.
Alain Badiou
Image
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
Image
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Alain Badiou
Image
We have the riots we deserve.
Alain Badiou
Image
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
Alain Badiou
Image
Without mathematics, we are blind.
Alain Badiou
Image
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
Alain Badiou
Image
There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Alain Badiou