"Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through……" — Rene Daumal
"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 the application of a knowledge to an action."
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Rene Daumal
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14 Quotes by Rene Daumal
Rene Daumal has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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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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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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