“It is through an "intimate cessation of all intellectual operations" that the mind is laid bare. If nor, discourse maintains it in its little complacency. ... The difference between inner experience and philosophy resides principally in this: that in experience, ... what counts is no longer the statement of wind, but the wind.” IfsMindLittlesPhilosophyDifferencesWindIntellectualStatementsOperationsIntimateDiscourseComplacency Book:Inner Experience Source: Inner Experience
“The chaos of the mind cannot constitute a reply to the providence of the universe. All it can be is an awakening in the night, where all that can be heard is anguished poetry let loose.” MindNightUniverseHeardChaosAwakeningProvidence Author:Georges Bataille
“A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.” MindMomentsLastsSpeakJudgingJudgmentEaseShoutingLife Has No Meaning Book:L'abbé C: A Novel Source: L'abbé C: A Novel
“The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.” TryingMindFirstsFactsConsciousnessConsciousSurfaceTolerateConscious Mind Book:Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo
“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.” MindLaborEndureHonestlySanityUnhealthyEquilibriumIncessantlyLucidity Book:L'abbé C: A Novel Source: L'abbé C: A Novel
