Georges Bataille Quotes - Page 4

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• Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

  Georges Bataille

  Order, Law, Literature

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• Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate.

  Georges Bataille

  Intellectual, Moral, Operations

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.9, SUNY Press

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• It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

  Georges Bataille

  Police, Agitation, Needs

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• How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!

  Georges Bataille

  Suffering, Talkative

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• Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

  Georges Bataille

  Love, Possibility

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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• The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.

  Georges Bataille

  Mind, Trying, Firsts

  Georges Bataille (1977). “Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo”, Arno Press

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• Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.

  Georges Bataille

  Humanity, Tasks, World

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxviii, 1945.

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• Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

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  Giving Up, Addiction, Ends

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.30, A&C Black

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• Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

  Georges Bataille

  Sacrifice, Sacred Things, Productions

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.119, U of Minnesota Press

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• Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.

  Georges Bataille

  Thinking, Doe, Heavenly Beings

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.18, A&C Black

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• The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

  Georges Bataille

  Laughter, Emotional, Analysis

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.33, SUNY Press

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• What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

  Georges Bataille

  Needs, Horizon, Limits

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. xxvi, 1945.

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• An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being.

  Georges Bataille

  Rejection, Facts, Intention

  Georges Bataille (2004). “On Nietzsche”, p.27, A&C Black

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• It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.

  Georges Bataille

  Philosophy, Wind, Differences

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.13, SUNY Press

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• Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

  Georges Bataille

  Communication, Desire, Tasks

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