Occupation: Writer Birth: March 16, 1908 Death: May 21, 1944
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... T….
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; what is cleares….
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..
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, al….
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 out….
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. But the ultimate a….
...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by oursel….
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 knows what is below, b….
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error..
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 descend to ….
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 ….
I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we….
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety..
Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks..
The door to the invisible must be visible..