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

Quote by Georges Bataille

Book:Inner Experience

Work

Inner Experience

This book delves into the intricate workings of the human mind, examining the nature of inner experiences, self-awareness, and the complexities of consciousness. more

Author

Georges Bataille

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. more

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

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“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.”

Ifs Mind Littles Philosophy Differences Wind Intellectual Statements Operations Intimate Discourse Complacency

Book:Inner Experience

Source: Inner Experience

“Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.”

Thinking Humans Persons Doe Problem Satisfaction Heavenly Abolish Heavenly Beings

Book:On Nietzsche

Source: On Nietzsche

“In the helter-skelter of this book, I didn't develop my views as theory. In fact, I even believe that efforts of that kind are tainted with ponderousness. Nietzsche wrote "with his blood," and criticizing, or, better, experiencing him means pouring out one's lifeblood. It was only with my life that I wrote the Nietzsche book that I had planned.”

Believe Kind Mean Book Facts Views Effort Blood Theory Criticize Pouring Tainted

Author:Georges Bataille

“What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.”

Ifs Needs Ends Turns Causes Interest Results Particular Activity Limits Aspect Substitutes Horizon Subordinates Entirety Fragmentation

Author:Georges Bataille

“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.”

World Humanity Changed Aspect Tasks Changing The World Entirety

Author:Georges Bataille

“Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.”

Way Whole Life Is Objects Essence Exceed Subordinates Entirety

Book:On Nietzsche

Source: On Nietzsche

“Entirety exists within me as exuberance in empty longing in the desire to burn with desire.”

Desire Empty Longing Entirety Exuberance

Author:Georges Bataille

“The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously.”

Firsts Persons Areas

Book:On Nietzsche

Source: On Nietzsche

“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.”

World Giving Kind Able Action Existence Conscious Remains Entirety Humanness

Author:Georges Bataille