“In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.”
― Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830
― Bacchus in Romantic England: Writers and Drink 1780-1830
“Anyone who seeks to help others—whether by means of religion or by means of medicine—must eschew the use of force.”
― The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
― The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct
“Images of strangled women, women in cages do not push any limits; they are a mainstream cliche of a mainstream social order. Rock music fails to live up to its subversive tradition when it eroticizes the same old establishment sadomasochism rather than playing with gender roles to make us look at them afresh”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“a man--venerable, with a white beard, or on a cross, or as a baby, or a sage seated in the full lotus position. Are these not limiting incarnations, temporary housings, of the great energy process?”
― The Politics of Ecstasy
― The Politics of Ecstasy
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
― Gratitude: Oliver Sacks
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