Famous Quotes by Alain Badiou

“All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.”

An event is something that changes the rules of the game.

The real question is not if the world is different, but if we are different within it.

Human beings are capable of truths beyond themselves.

The philosophical gesture is always to disrupt the dominant order with the real force of a new idea.

The world is a multiplicity of irreducible differences; philosophy gives us a way to endure that.

Truth is not the realization of a program; it is the creation of something new.

The pursuit of truth requires that we break with habit, that we confront ourselves anew.

To think is always to go beyond the current state of things.

The only maxim of contemporary philosophy is that there are truths of which the world has no idea.

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

Being and event are two different dimensions, yet they interact to form reality.

Only those who continue to experiment know what it means to live.

Philosophy is the active desire for a wisdom that interrupts the order of things.

Art, science, politics, and love are ways of enduring something beyond mere survival.

We need to invent new ways to remain faithful to love, to truth, and to hope.

To love someone is to see them as a truth of the world.

The ultimate goal of philosophy is to change what we can become.

Our society has lost the courage to think beyond mere existence.

To live without an idea is to let oneself drift on the random surfaces of existence.

Love is a construction, a patient project, and not a lightning bolt or an eternal destiny.