Georges Bataille Quotes & Sayings
14 most famous Georges Bataille quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a French writer who passed away on 9 July, 1962.
“Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.”
“Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”
“Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.”
“The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.”
“Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.”
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
“A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.”
“The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.”
“The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.”
“Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.”
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