"But without going to such extremes prudence may easily involve the loss of some of the best things in life. The worshipper of Dionysus reacts against prudence. In intoxication, physical or spiritual, he recovers an intensity of feeling which prudence had destroyed; he finds the world full of delight and beauty, and his imagination is suddenly liberated from the prison of every-day preoccupations."

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Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, and public intellectual whose work shaped analytic philosophy and modern logic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 and was an influential peace activist.

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