Rene Daumal Quotes

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Whenever there is fear, you will get wrong figures.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

We were almost all wrong

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Error is worse than ignorance.

In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?

Till the false is seen as the false, truth is not.

...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes.

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Not one word of the following is true

Alternative facts are not facts. They're falsehoods.