“The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.”
Source: Inner Experience
Quotes from book
Inner Experience
Georges Bataille
Original title
L'expérience intérieure
(French, 1943)
Inner Experience is a 1943 book by the French intellectual Georges Bataille. His first lengthy philosophical treatise, it was followed by Guilty and On Nietzsche . Together, the three works constitute Bataille's Summa Atheologica, in which he explores the experience of excess, expressed in forms such as laughter, tears, eroticism, death, sacrifice and poetry.
