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Quote by Georges Bataille
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the d

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

Other quotes by Georges Bataille

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

Category:
Duality
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Georges Bataille
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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

Category:
Truth
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Georges Bataille
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. – Georges Bataille

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Happiness
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Georges Bataille
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Morals
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing whats right. – Isaac Asimov

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Morals

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to. – Samuel Butler

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Morals

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Morals

Bad company ruins good morals. – Bible

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Morals

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