“Humanity-attached-to-the-task-of-changing-the-world, which is only a single and fragmentary aspect of humanity, will itself be changed in humanity-as-entirety.” WorldHumanityChangedAspectTasksChanging The WorldEntirety Author:Georges Bataille
“Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action.” WorldGivingKindAbleActionExistenceConsciousRemainsEntiretyHumanness Author:Georges Bataille
“We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.” WorldWantTryingLooksKidsBehindsSkyPaintingBackgroundsCracksGapsFenceDecipher Author:Georges Bataille
“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
“We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.” WorldTwoFactsDiesThis WorldCertainty Book:Inner Experience Source: Inner Experience
“It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.” WorldFormClearParodyDeceptive Book:Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939 Source: Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939
