Alain Badiou Quotes on Truth
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, a former student of Louis Althusser, and one of the leading figures of post-Maoist French philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Alain Badiou on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Mathematics is ontology.”
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Attributed to Alain Badiou:
“Truth is what punches a hole in knowledge.”
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Attributed to Alain Badiou:
“There is no ethics in general, only the ethics of singular truth procedures.”
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Attributed to Alain Badiou:
“Be faithful to the event that has touched you.”
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“This book founds a doctrine which is effectively post-Cartesian, or even post-Lacanian, a doctrine of what, for thought, both un-binds the Heidegerean connection between being and truth and institutes the subject, not as support or origin, but as fragment of the process of a truth.”
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