The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease… — 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… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The preceding criticism justifies the following definition of the entire human: human existence as the life of "unmotivated" celebration, celebration in all… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Human life, distinct from juridical existence, existing as it does on a globe isolated in celestial space, from night to day and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“My life only has a meaning insofar as I lack one: oh, but let me be mad! Make something of all this… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“TO WHOM LIFE IS AN EXPERIENCE TO BE CARRIED AS FAR AS POSSIBLE... I have not meant to express my thought but… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[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 Image
“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 Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
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