Top 100 Georges Bataille Quotes (2024 Update)
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Georges Bataille Quote: “Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”

101. “Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “An immense industrial network cannot be managed in the same way that one changes a tire... It expresses a circuit of cosmic energy on which it depends, which it cannot limit, and whose laws it cannot ignore without consequences.”

102. “An immense industrial network cannot be managed in the same way that one changes a tire... It expresses a circuit of cosmic energy on which it depends, which it cannot limit, and whose laws it cannot ignore without consequences.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “The announcement of a vast project is always its betrayal.”

103. “The announcement of a vast project is always its betrayal.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.”

104. “The fascination of sleep, which pits the lure of the void against the obstinacy of an impotent will, is an obstacle that life has perhaps never surmounted.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.”

105. “I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein each moment has meaning only in relation to another or others that will follow it.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.”

106. “The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of an escape from boredom. Human life aspires to the passions, and again encounters its exigencies.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “One cannot all of a sudden deprive a society of its essence.”

107. “One cannot all of a sudden deprive a society of its essence.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “Charles Baudelaire’s refusal was the most profound form of refusal, for it was in no way the assertion of an opposite principle. It only expressed that which was indefensible and impossible in the poet’s obstructed state of mind.”

108. “Charles Baudelaire’s refusal was the most profound form of refusal, for it was in no way the assertion of an opposite principle. It only expressed that which was indefensible and impossible in the poet’s obstructed state of mind.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”

109. “Man always becomes other. Man is the animal who continually differs from himself.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium.”

110. “MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “Nous nous approchons du vide, mais ce n’est pas pour y tomber. Nous voulons nous griser de vertige et l’image de la chute y suffit.”

111. “Nous nous approchons du vide, mais ce n’est pas pour y tomber. Nous voulons nous griser de vertige et l’image de la chute y suffit.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “Intimacy is never separated from external elements, without which it could not be signified. Where we think we have caught hold of the Grail, we have only grasped a thing, and what is left in our hands is only a cooking pot.”

112. “Intimacy is never separated from external elements, without which it could not be signified. Where we think we have caught hold of the Grail, we have only grasped a thing, and what is left in our hands is only a cooking pot.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “What I want, is that you love me even unto death. For my part, it is in death I love you at this very instant. But I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

113. “What I want, is that you love me even unto death. For my part, it is in death I love you at this very instant. But I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “The lover strips the beloved of her identity no less than the blood-stained priest his human or animal victim.”

114. “The lover strips the beloved of her identity no less than the blood-stained priest his human or animal victim.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: ‘We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words deceive. We seek the heights. Each one of us can ignore this search if he has a mind to, but mankind as a whole aspires to these heights; they are the only definition of his nature, his only justification and significance.”

115. “If I were to be asked what we are, I should answer: ‘We are the door to everything that can be, we are the expectation that no material response can satisfy, no trick with words deceive. We seek the heights. Each one of us can ignore this search if he has a mind to, but mankind as a whole aspires to these heights; they are the only definition of his nature, his only justification and significance.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “A poet doesn’t justify-he doesn’t accept-nature completely. True poetry is outside laws. But poetry ultimately accepts poetry.”

116. “A poet doesn’t justify-he doesn’t accept-nature completely. True poetry is outside laws. But poetry ultimately accepts poetry.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “The ritual of witchcraft is the ritual of an oppressed people.”

117. “The ritual of witchcraft is the ritual of an oppressed people.”

— Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille Quote: “Anguish is what makes humankind, it seems; not anguish alone, but anguish transcended and the act of transcending it.”

118. “Anguish is what makes humankind, it seems; not anguish alone, but anguish transcended and the act of transcending it.”

— Georges Bataille

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