Quotes by Bataille, Georges

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

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

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decis >>

Quotations about Contradiction

All concord's born of contraries. >>

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but >>

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction >>

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Bataille, Georges