Dionysian

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“Assuming that rapture is nature’s play with man, the Dionysian artist’s creative activity is the play with rapture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“A life-worshipper’s philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death ... and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)