Dionysian

Famous quotes containing the word dionysian:

“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)

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