Georges Bataille Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Men, Order

• My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

  Georges Bataille

  Giving, Church, Satisfaction

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

• 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

  Dream, Knowing, Giving

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.24, U of Minnesota Press

• The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

  Georges Bataille

  Real, Giving, Doe

  Georges Bataille (1989). “Theory of religion”, Zone Books (NY)

• If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

  Georges Bataille

  Giving Up, Perfect, Viewpoints

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

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

  Georges Bataille

  Giving Up, Addiction, Ends

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

• Realism gives me the impression of a mistake. Violence alone escapes the feeling of poverty of those realistic experiences. Only death and desire have the force that oppresses, that takes one's breath away. Only the extremism of desire and death enable one to attain the truth.

  Georges Bataille

  Mistake, Giving, Feelings

• The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

  Georges Bataille

  Emotional, Giving, Elements

• [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 of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.

  Georges Bataille

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.31, U of Minnesota Press

• 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

  Blood, Giving, Battle

• Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.

  Georges Bataille

  Giving, World, Able

  "On Nietzsche". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 30, 1945.

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