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

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

Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.

- 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

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

- Rene Daumal