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

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

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

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

...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

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

- Rene Daumal