17 Quotations by Georges Bataille
- 1. A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ...
- 2. At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in ge ...
- 3. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by ...
- 4. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is, above all, the secret ...
- 5. Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incomplete compared to a person... ...
- 6. Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
- 7. I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
- 8. Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of ...
- 9. Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur an ...
- 10. Naturally, love is the most distant possibility.
- 11. Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be ta ...
- 12. Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
- 13. Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhea ...
- 14. The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are ...
- 15. The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u ...
- 16. The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is ...
- 17. To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For b ...
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