Quotes by Bataille, Georges

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in vi >>

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incom >>

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and >>

Quotations about Fear

The first and great commandment is, Don't let them scare you. >>

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. >>

Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it >>

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.

Bataille, Georges