Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, al…

- Rene Daumal

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…

- Rene Daumal

A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

- Rene Daumal

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…

- 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 …

- Rene Daumal

The door to the invisible must be visible.

- Rene Daumal

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…

- Rene Daumal

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…

- Rene Daumal

Philosophy teaches how man thinks he thinks; but drinking shows how he really thinks.

- Rene Daumal