Famous quotes containing the word dionysian:
“A life-worshippers 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 Gods in his heaven and alls right with the world.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Assuming that rapture is natures play with man, the Dionysian artists creative activity is the play with rapture.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)