Rene Daumal Quotes

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Rene Daumal

Goal, Enough, Confusion

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.
Rene Daumal

Pain, Words, Thought

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

Time, Mystery, Dawn

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
Rene Daumal

Experience, Words, Value

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: March 16, 1908

Died: May 21, 1944

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