“Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
I enjoyed the innocence of unhappiness and of helplessness; could I blame myself for a sin which attracted me, which flooded me with pleasure… — Georges Bataille Copy Share
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille Copy Share
