Rene Daumal Quotes

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

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 the application of a knowledge to an action.

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

The door to the invisible must be visible.

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

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 clearest is unutterable.