Community Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Community Death Elements Emotional Existence Giving Life Obsessive Values
Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,… — Johnny Luckett Copy Share Image
We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition. — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do… — Yoda Copy Share Image
I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in value as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The biological imperative to live—indeed, live forever—was burned into our brains, into our emotional self-model, over the course of millennia. But our brand-new cognitive… — Thomas Metzinger 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
Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my… — Sharon Horgan Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community. — Dwight Schultz Copy Share Image
Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being… — Donna Freitas Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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