Quote by Georges Bataille
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradi

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille

Other quotes by Georges Bataille

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to ones rage whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them. – Georges Bataille

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Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille

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Duality
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. – Georges Bataille

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Other Quotes from
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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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Contradiction

I happen to feel that the degree of a persons intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic. – Lisa Alther

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Contradiction

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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Contradiction

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