Quote

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Georges Bataille

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Georges Bataille
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 10
Died: 1962
Died: July 9
Author
Drawer
Librarian
Philosopher
Writer
Bilhom
Pierre Angélique
George Bataille
Joruju Bataiyu
G. Bataiyu
Lord Auch
Pierre Angelique
Rebellion
Stronger
Necessary
Nothing

More quotes by Georges Bataille

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 fly with.
Georges Bataille
Image
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
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 humanity.
Georges Bataille
Image
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint.
Georges Bataille
Image
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
Georges Bataille
Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille
Image
Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.
Georges Bataille
Image
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.
Georges Bataille
Image
It seems impossible, in fact, to judge the eye using any word other than seductive, since nothing is more attractive in the bodies of animals and men. But extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror.
Georges Bataille
Image
We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.
Georges Bataille
Image
Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.
Georges Bataille
Image
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
Image
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.
Georges Bataille
Image
The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille
Image
Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.
Georges Bataille
Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
Georges Bataille
Image
We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.
Georges Bataille
Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
Georges Bataille
Image
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.
Georges Bataille
Image
How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am!
Georges Bataille