I Feel Really Assured By The Fact

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.

The Absolute Contingency Of The Encounter Takes On The Appearance Of Destiny. 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.

Let Us Say In Passing That Since (philosophical) Remedies Are Often Worse Than The Malady, Our Age, In Order To Be Cured Of The Plato Sickness, Has Swallowed Such Doses Of A Relativist, Vaguely Skeptical, Lightly Spiritualist And Insipidly Moralist Medicine, That It Is In The Process Of Gently Dying, In The Small Bed Of Its Supposed Democratic Comfort.

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.

The Ethic Of Truth Is The Complete Opposite Of An 'ethics Of Communication'. It Is An Ethic Of The Real The Ethic Of Truth Is Absolutely Opposed To Opinion, And To Ethics In General.