Georges Bataille Quotes

Georges Bataille — French Writer born on September 16, 1897, died on July 09, 1962

Georges Albert Maurice Victor Bataille was a French intellectual and literary figure working in literature, philosophy, anthropology, economics, sociology and history of art. At the core of his writings, which included essays, novels, and poetry, are subjects such as eroticism, mysticism, sovereignty, and transgression... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Georges Bataille Quotes

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