Georges Bataille Quotes on Freedom
Georges Bataille was a French philosopher, novelist, and librarian whose work occupied a singular position at the edges of surrealism, sociology, and the history of religions. This page collects quotes attributed to Georges Bataille on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Georges Bataille:
“Sovereignty is the refusal to accept the limits that the fear of death would impose.”
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Attributed to Georges Bataille:
“The economy of expenditure is more fundamental than the economy of production.”
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“Life is whole only when it isn’t subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xxvii -
“It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xxvii -
“To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.””
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xxxiv, note