Bataille

Famous quotes containing the word bataille:

    The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    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.
    —Georges Bataille (1897–1962)

    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)