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

The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. – Georges Bataille

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Slavery
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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

Category:
Dreams
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Contradiction
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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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Contradiction

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

All concords born of contraries. – Ben Jonson

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Contradiction

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. – Ernest Renan

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