Quotes by Bataille, Georges

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the sain >>

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

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

Quotations about Sacrifice

The universe is so vast and ageless that the life of one man can only >>

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little th >>

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever es >>

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Bataille, Georges