Rene Daumal Quotes

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• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
• Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named;…
• The door to the invisible must be visible.
• Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
• Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth.…
• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is…
• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads…
• 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 to…
• Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think.…
• It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we…
• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above…
• Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
• Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our…

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