Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It pays to get drunk with the best people.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.
Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.
What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide.