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French author and philosopher, born on September 10, 1897, and died on July 9, 1962. Bataille is known for his unique literary style and philosophical thinking, with works spanning various forms including novels, essays, and critiques.

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“We usually associate religion with law and reason. But if we confine ourselves to what grounds religions as a whole, we are forced to reject this notion. Religion is doubtlessly, even in essence, subversive: it turns away from the observance of laws. At least, what it demands is excess, sacrifice, and the feast, which culminates in ecstasy.”

Religion Sacrifice Ecstasy Subversion Eroticism

Book:The Tears of Eros

Source: The Tears of Eros

“By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.”

Thinking States Emotion Ties Ecstasy Confession Mystical Rapture Mystical Experiences Thinking Less

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.”

Ends Ecstasy

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.”

Way Ecstasy

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”

Love Reality Taken Ecstasy Grandeur Ecstatic Cohesion Tumult Ecstatic Love

Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939

About the Author

Born: September 10, 1897
Died: July 9, 1962
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Quotes: 124

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