"When feet doesn't want to hold you, you……" — Rene Daumal
"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 walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?"
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Rene Daumal
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14 Quotes by Rene Daumal
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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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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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