Bacchanalian Whirl Quote by Hegel, G. W. H

The secret of drunkenness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal…

— Aldous Huxley

“Who dies best, the soldier who falls for your sake, or the fly in my whiskey-glass? The happy agony of the fly is his…

— William T. Vollmann

“When one is intoxicated by the worldly life, one is under illusion. When the intoxication wears away; everything will fall into place. What ‘one’…

— Dada Bhagwan

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.

— Marguerite Duras

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

— Theodore Roethke

I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is…

— Robert Burns

What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new…

— Horace

What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle.

— Horace

“The Men of Faith will play the cup-bearers at this lifelong bacchanal, filling and ever filling again with the warm liquor that the Intelligences,…

— Aldous Huxley

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through…

— Bible

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without…

— Thomas Love Peacock