• The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

  Georges Bataille
  French writer and critic 1897-1962
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. questioning
2. ceaselessly
3. opposition
4. between

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The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. by : Georges Bataille

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