“The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.”
Charles Rosen
“Public intoxication will get you arrested, but private intoxication makes you an alcoholic.”
Amber Nicole Limbaugh
“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”
Aristotle
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Cyril Connolly
“Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation — not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.”
R. Scott Bakker
“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.”
Edmund Burke
