“[Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return] is what makes moments caught up in the immanence of return suddenly appear as ends. In every other system, don't forget, these moments are viewed as means: Every moral system proclaims that "each moment of life ought to be motivated." Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.” MeanEndsMomentsForgetMoralReturnOughtEternalCaughtDoctrineMotivatedCaught UpMoments Of Life 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 power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.” WorldGivingDoeRealMomentsIntimacyReal WorldConsumptionDazzling Book:Theory of religion Source: Theory of religion
“I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.” ThinkingWayMomentsRelationServility Book:The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge Source: The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge
“At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.” IfsMenWantGivingReasonMomentsGodOrderVoiceObjectsCoreLeapAssistanceWant HimRecoil Author:Georges Bataille
