Quotes from Alain Badiou

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

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.

Love is not a contract between two narcissists.

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.

If you limit yourself to sexual pleasure it's narcissistic. You don't connect with the other, you take what pleasure you want from them.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

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.

I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.

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'.

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