"Experience is, in fever and anguish, the putting into question (to the test) of that which a man knows of being. Should he in this fever have any apprehension whatsoever, he cannot say: âI have seen God, the absolute, or the depths of the universeâ; he can only say âthat which I have seen eludes understandingââand God, the absolute, the depths of the universe are nothing if they are not categories of the understanding. If I said decisively, âI have seen God,â that which I see would change. Instead of the inconceivable unknownâwildly free before me, leaving me wild and free before itâthere would be a dead object and the thing of the theologian, to which the unknown would be subjugated."
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Georges Bataille
1897 â 1962
französischer Schriftsteller, Soziologe und Philosoph
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