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Because it is not given what we should do or who we should be, there is always a question of with whom and with what we should keep faith.
Martin Hägglund • This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
There may be a shattering that this grace produces in the individual who, in thrall to commodities and Capital, is separated from the subject he is capable of being.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
By the way, I would say that one of the characteristics of our society is to make old age as invisible as possible. Little by little, the real father is being relegated to this social invisibility.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
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Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
But what they are always saying is: I shall extract something else from what was mere chance. I’m going to extract something that will endure, something that will persist, a commitment, a fidelity.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
That’s why you also have a duty to be attentive (and this is the hardest part) to what’s going on, to what’s happening to young people
Alain Badiou • The True Life
Determining what a creative, positive freedom might be will be the task of the new world to come.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
My own philosophical view is attempting to say that love cannot be reduced to any of these approximations and is a quest for truth.