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On Nietzsche QUOTES

On Nietzsche QUOTES

1 " If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

2 " We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

3 " To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

4 " Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

5 " Pathetic creatures on their knees...
Tirelessly, naively repeating,
"Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in reality God is a person, a particular individual. We speak to him. We address him by name–he is the God of Abraham and Jacob. We treat him just like anybody else, like a personal being..."
"So he's a whore? "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

6 " Starry sky
my sister
cursed men
star your death
the light of a great cold
solitude of lightning
absence of humanity at last
I empty myself of memories
a desert sun
effaces my name
star I see
its silence ice
it cries out like a wolf
on my back I fall to the ground
it kills me I guess. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

7 " VII The happiness we find in becoming is possible only by annihilating the reality of “existences” and lovely appearance, and through the pessimistic destruction of illusions: so, by annihilating even the loveliest appearances, Dionysian happiness attains its height. "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche

8 " MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium "

― Georges Bataille , On Nietzsche