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

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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Truth
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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

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Morals
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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

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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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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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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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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw

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