What did Georges Bataille mean by: The total person is first disclosed … in areas of life that are lived frivolously. Georges Bataille Copy
To choose evil is to choose freedom, emancipation from all restraint. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Emancipation, Freedom, Restraint, 0 Georges Bataille
The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Paradox, Perception, Truth, 0 Georges Bataille
Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Elusiveness, Time, Uncertainty, 0 Georges Bataille
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Death, Emotion, 0 Georges Bataille
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Respect, Sacred, Violation, 0 Georges Bataille
Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others’ ends. Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Independence, Individuality, Self-fulfillment, 0 Georges Bataille
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death Author, January 16, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Death, Eroticism, Life, 0 Georges Bataille
An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Georges Bataille, Existence, Intention, Meaning, 0 Georges Bataille
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. Friedrich Holderlin
