Elude Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Elude Order Time
The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. — John Schaar Copy Share Image
The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be. — Charles Handy Copy Share Image
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Future is unpredictable, yet remains up to us. We're choosing which path we're going to take. — Ophelia Callens Copy Share Image
If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The future is a precise plan and you are just following the signals towards it. — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed. — Anonymous 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
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular… — David Buss Copy Share Image
To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we try to hold on to our partial glimpses of the divine, we cut it down to our own size and close our… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All that is best for us comes of itself into our hands-but if we strive to overtake it, it perpetually eludes us. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
The theoretical recognition of the split-space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism… — Homi K. Bhabha Copy Share Image
The fact that so many people choose to live in ways that narrow the community of fate to a very limited set of others… — Margaret Levi Copy Share Image
Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image