Quotes by Bataille, Georges

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. >>

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys >>

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

Quotations about Sanity

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. >>

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America. >>

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? >>

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Bataille, Georges