Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it’s not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!

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

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

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a...

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.

These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.

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

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular...

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics…that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

Great Other” of transcendence.

Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

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

It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: ‘Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being...

I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of chance to a state that has universal value. Starting out from something that is simply anencounter, a trifle, you...

There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?

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

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,...