If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be mor...e divine and less brutal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not enough exercise in this way of life. I try to make up by active gymnastics before I dress when I get up, by walking r...apidly in the lower hall and the greenhouse after each meal for perhaps five to ten minutes, and a good hand rubbing before going to bed. I eat moderately; drink one cup of coffee at breakfast and one cup of tea at lunch and no other stimulant. My health is now, and usually, excellent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadi...um; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alcoholism is a search for a common language, or at least, it is a compensation for a language that has been lost. The use of drug...s does not imply the overestimation of the value of language but of silence. Drunkenness exaggerates communication; drugs destroy it. Young people's preference for drugs reveals a change in the contemporary attitude toward language and communication. The first to see the differences between drugs and wine was Baudelaire: "Wine exalts the will; hashish destroys it. Wine is a physical stimulant; hashish a suicidal weapon. Wine mellows us and makes us sociable; hashish isolates us." Wine is social, drugs solitary; the one inflames the senses, the other rouses the imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the to...ngue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic--in short, the closest th...ing to a genuine panacea--known to medical science is work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »