Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
“Now, in my readings and in my travels I have heard, like you, about men of a superior type, possessing the keys to all… — René Daumal Copy Share Image
“I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here,… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks. — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
