Character Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image ““It has always been possible to say "The moral emptiness of today's world is appalling." ”” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“what we might call everyday morality is exclusive of ethical anguish.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.” — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Tomorrow's world can not exist without morals, without faith and memory. Cynicism, narrow interests and cowardice must not occupy our lives.” — King Michael of Romania Copy Share Image
“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making, power, success)… — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
“The entire morality of the world could be summarized in the words, do as others do.” — Multatuli Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors.” — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had… — T.M. Williams 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
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image