Source: Violent Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“For truth has such a face and such a mien
As to be loved needs only to be seen.”
Pt. I, lines 33–34.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
Alan Moore on Anarchism (2009)
Context: I don’t believe that a violent revolution is ever going to work, simply on the grounds that it never has in the past. I mean, speaking as a resident of Northampton, during the English civil war we backed Cromwell — we provided all the boots for his army — and we were a center of antiroyalist sentiment. Incidentally, we provided all the boots to the Confederates as well, so obviously we know how to pick a winner. Cromwell’s revolution? I guess it succeeded. The king was beheaded, which was quite early in the day for beheading; amongst the European monarchy, I think we can claim to have kicked off that trend. But give it another ten years; as it turned out, Cromwell himself was a monster. He was every bit the monster that Charles I had been. In some ways he was worse.
“I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.”
Cults, Sects and Questions (c. 1979)
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
Variant: Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think that you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Source: Atlas Shrugged
