The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatur...es are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists--in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication ...from within, a sort of invisible champagne.... Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expect ...from their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often und...er conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds ... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoymen...t of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-aft...er, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic a...nd acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralisation and disorder on the part of the inferior ... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »