Quotes by Bataille, Georges

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, bu >>

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradictio >>

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

Quotations about Beauty

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, >>

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is t >>

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if f >>

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges