Bataille Quote by Georges Bataille

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

“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

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

— Georges Bataille

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

“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

[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

I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

— Georges Bataille

[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

“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

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

— Georges Bataille

The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.

— Georges Bataille

Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals.

— Georges Bataille