“They can very well try to find each other; they will never find anything but parodic images, and they will fall asleep as empty as mirrors.” LovePhilosophyPhilosophical Musings Author:Georges Bataille
“Human beauty, in the union of bodies, shows the contrast between the purest aspect of mankind and the hideous animal quality of the sexual organs.” PhilosophySinHuman NatureSexualityAnthropologyImmorality Book:Erotism: Death and Sensuality Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“Death was a sign of violence brought into a world which it could destroy. Although motionless, the dead man had a part in the violence which had struck him down; anything which came too near him was threatened by the destruction which had brought him low.” PhilosophyAnthropologyMortality Awareness Book:Erotism: Death and Sensuality Source: Erotism: Death and Sensuality
“Philosophy finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.” PhilosophyMissingCleanTheologyMysticalFabulousHeirsSlate Author:Georges Bataille
“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
“[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter of giving a frock coat to what is, a mathematical frock coat. On the other hand, affirming that the universe resembles nothing and is only formless amounts to saying that the universe is something like a spider or spit.” MenGivingMatterPhilosophyHandsUniverseGoalAmountShapesMathematicalAcademicCoatsSpidersSpitAffirming Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
