Georges Bataille Quotes on God
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 god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“I was jealous of people with a God to hang onto, whereas I … soon all I’d have left would be ‘eyes to cry with’.”
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“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.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. 3 -
“Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God’s person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.”
On Nietzsche(1945) | p. xx -
“Philosophy … finds itself to be no longer anything but the heir to a fabulous mystical theology, but missing a God and wiping the slate clean.”
L’Expérience Intérieure(1943) | p. 9