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 More Quotes by Georges Bataille More Quotes From Georges Bataille Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death Georges Bataille said may An intention that rejects what has no meaning in fact is a rejection of the entirety of being. Georges Bataille intention rejection facts The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge. Georges Bataille analysis laughter emotional 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. Georges Bataille horizon limits needs By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical. Georges Bataille mystical-experiences ties thinking Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. Georges Bataille knowing dream giving Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order. Georges Bataille literature law order It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms. Georges Bataille agitation police needs How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am! Georges Bataille talkative suffering The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind . . . From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate. Georges Bataille mind trying firsts Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things. Georges Bataille sacred-things sacrifice productions Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. Georges Bataille taken love reality I teach the art of turning anguish into delight. Georges Bataille delight inspirational art 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. Georges Bataille heirs missing philosophy But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond. Georges Bataille rupture tears limits The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Georges Bataille warrior interest self I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. Georges Bataille ecstasy way [Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with. Georges Bataille abandoned causes wings 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. Georges Bataille essence life-is way The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. Georges Bataille areas persons firsts
