"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers……" — Rene Daumal
"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 pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."
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Rene Daumal
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14 Quotes by Rene Daumal
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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error…
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Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is…
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The door to the invisible must be visible.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn…
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Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What…
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In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of…
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When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things,…
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Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel,…
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an…
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place?…
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Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.
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