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

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

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

- 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

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.

- 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

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

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…

- Rene Daumal

...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…

- Rene Daumal