Quote by Georges Bataille
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animals in

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

Other quotes by Georges Bataille

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

Category:
Passion
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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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Other Quotes from
Duality
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In me the tiger sniffs the rose. – Siegfried Sassoon

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Duality

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. – Tanith Lee

Category:
Duality

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out – Michel de Montaigne

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Duality

To separate oneself or one – Joseph Campbell

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Duality

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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Imagination

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon

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Nature

The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. – Charles Towne

Category:
Helping

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. – Freeman Dyson

Category:
Toys