| Immanuel Kant was a real pissant,who was very rarely stable.
 Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar,
 who couldn't drink you under the table.
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 jemand, der vom Trinken soviel versteht, wie ein Bettler Geld hat
 
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| David Hume could out-consumeSchopenhauer and Hegel
 Wittgenstein was a beery swine,
 who was just as sloshed as Schlegel
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 sloshed = völlig dicht, endgültig zu
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| There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach you,'bout the raising of the wrist.
 Sokrates himself was permanently pissed.
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 to be pissed = suboptimal drauf sein
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| John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill.
 Plato, they say, could stick it away
 Half a crate of whiskey every day.
 | shandy = nahezu alkoholfreies Bier
 
 crate = Kiste
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| Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle.Hobbes was fond of his dram
 And René Descartes was a drunken fart
 "I drink therefore I am"
 | dram = mächtiger Zug am Leibe
 fart = rektale Ventilation
 
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| Yes, Sokrates, himself, is particularly missedA lovely little thinker,
 But a bugger when he's pissed.
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 bugger = ziemlich unangenehme Person
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