Georges Bataille Quotes

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.

I've seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there's nothing closer to God than that.

My name is Linus, and I am your God.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

The difference between God and Reggie Jackson is that God doesn't think he's Reggie Jackson.

No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.

If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you're in, is paramount - you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything - I think that when you create, you're closest to God and yourself.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

God created man, but I could do better.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He is the highest point of the scale, pure act and active power, the purest light.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself.

Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.