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R Scott Bakker Quotes
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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls. (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Everyone thinks they’ve won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet strings from which all men hang (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Something... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as debtors. What's given is taken (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
What if the choice isn't between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it? (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat men as arm them with fancy (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all men made fools (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth, but the world between hearths belonged to men (R Scott Bakker Quotes)
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