Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.

In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others.

Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of being self-centered.

The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.

The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.