The Dionysian Vision of the World Quotes

“For the rapture of the Dionysian state with its annihilation of the ordinary bounds and limits of existence contains, while it lasts, a [will-less] lethargic element in which all personal experience of the past became immersed. This chasm of oblivion separates the worlds of everyday reality and the Dionysian reality. But as soon as this everyday reality re-enters consciousness, it is experienced as such, with nausea: an ascetic, will-negating mood is the fruit of these states. … In the consciousness of awakening from intoxication he sees everywhere the terrible and absurd in human existence: it nauseates him. Now he understands the wisdom of the forest god.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dionysian Vision of the World

“There are two states in which man arrives at the rapturous feeling of existence, namely in dreaming and in intoxication.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dionysian Vision of the World