Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. Georges Bataille More Quotes by Georges Bataille More Quotes From Georges Bataille The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is. Georges Bataille done authority names The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. Georges Bataille light essence moving Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. Georges Bataille communication tasks desire Inner experience ... is not easily accessible and, viewed from the outside by intelligence, it would even be necessary to see in it a sum of distinct operations, some intellectual, others aesthetic, yet others moral. ... It is only from within, lived to the point of terror, that it appears to unify that which discursive thought must separate. Georges Bataille operations moral intellectual 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. Georges Bataille tasks humanity world 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. Georges Bataille heavenly-beings doe thinking Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. Georges Bataille literature god animal Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends. Georges Bataille addiction giving-up ends Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. Georges Bataille possibility love