Badiou Event Quotes & Sayings

The rage inside him was titanic. How to keep from exploding? What a relief exploding was. — Jonathan Franzen

I'm really feeling more like a Harry Potter to your Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger."
"Harry Potter? Someone is awful full of themselves."
"And this way Charlie can be always-loyal and cooler than cool Neville Longbottom, and Liam gets to be Sirius."
Jase shook his head. "Sirius dies."
"Lupin?"
"Also dies."
"A Weasley twin?"
"Liam isn't that funny, and Fred dies."
I searched over the entire cast of Harry Potter. "All the cool people die. — Tammy Blackwell

The body is the instrument of the soul. — Gary Zukav

We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle. What I mean is that what composes an event is always extracted from a situation, always related back to a singular multiplicity, to its state, to the language that is connected to it, etc. In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being. — Alain Badiou

I accept the blissful gifts of beautiful flowers and plants. — Amy Leigh Mercree

Any contemporary political re-statement of liberal and socialist goals must include as central the idea of a society in which all men would become men of substantive reason, whose independent reasoning would have structural consequences for their societies, its history and thus for their own life fates. — C. Wright Mills

It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge. — Paulo Coelho

I never dreamed redemption would be this good. — Lisa Kessler

An "event" is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us as something unaccountable, something that we cannot quite get our minds around even as we recognize the great importance of the encounter. Badiou identifies — Mark T. Conard

Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. — Karin Slaughter

The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales':
Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface. — Kamil Ali