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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…
• Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct…
• 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…
• Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call…
• In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and…
• 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…
• Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even,…
• It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise…
• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this:…
• Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

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