On Nietzsche Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“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

“To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“MORAL AMBIGUITIES constitute a fairly stable system of equilibrium”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“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

“A peu d'exceptions près, ma compagnie sur terre est celle de Nietzsche...”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“And this death is not just mine. We are all always dying. The brief movement of time that keeps us from the void is dreamy incoherence. As we leap, it's not so much perhaps that we're flung out among the dead-whom we imagine as being far from us — as that we're hurled beyond. The woman I embrace is dying, and this infinite destruction of individual existences, incessantly flowing, incessantly escaping beyond them, is ME!”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“In this nothingness in which I exist (questioning to the point of nausea, so that every answer I get seems to push the void that much further out, doubling the questioning) I can make out nothing — and God as an answer is as empty as the "nature" found in crude materialism. Nonetheless I can't disavow the possibilities given to those who shape God into an image. Because, humanly, the experience of him exists, and we are familiar with his stories.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“Nothing human necessitates a community of those desiring humanness. Anything taking us down that road will require combined efforts — or at least continuity from one person to the next — not limiting ourselves to the possibilities of a single person. To cut my ties with what surrounds me makes this solitude of mine a mistake. A life is only a link in the chain. I want other people to continue the experience begun by those before me and dedicate themselves like me and the others before me to this — to go to the furthest reaches of the possible.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“If I ever have occasion to write out my last words in blood, I'll write this: "Everything I lived, said, or wrote — everything I loved — I considered communication. How could I live my life otherwise? Living this recluse's life, speaking in a desert of isolated readers, accepting the buoyant touch of writing! My accomplishment, its sum total, is to have taken risks and to have my sentences fall like the victims of war now lying in the fields." I want people to laugh, shrug their shoulders, and say, "He's having fun at our expense, he's alive." True, I live on, even now am full of life, though I declare, "If you find me reluctant to take risks in this book, throw it away; if on the other hand, when you read me you find nothing to risk yourself, then listen:
Throughout your life up until your death, your reading will only corrupt you ... and you'll stink with corruption.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche