Philosophy Quote by Rene Daumal — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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.”

“This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.”

“Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.”

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.”

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.”

“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…”