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

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives. – Georges Bataille

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Mental Illness
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To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. – Georges Bataille

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God
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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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Im as pure as the driven slush. – Tallulah Bankhead

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The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it. – Jean Anouilh

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. – Dante Alighieri

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Morals

Everythings got a moral, if only you can find it. – Lewis Carroll

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How often one sees people looking far and wide for what they are holding in their hands? Why! I am doing it myself at this very moment. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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I have faith in the justice system, and what will happen will happen. Im just trying to do the right thing. – Tracey Gold

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One persons religion is another persons cult. – Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Hope is tomorrows veneer over todays disappointment. – Evan Esar

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