Bataille

Famous quotes containing the word bataille:

    The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence.... It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one’s rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)