“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.” — R. Scott Bakker Finding oneself Copy Share Image
“Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games.” — R. Scott Bakker Children Copy Share Image
“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.” — R. Scott Bakker Indistinguishable Copy Share Image
Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them… — R. Scott Bakker Ambiguity Copy Share Image
To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as… — R. Scott Bakker Death Copy Share Image
Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing. — R. Scott Bakker Faith Copy Share Image
If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I am Cnaiur urs Skiötha, breaker-of-horses-and-men!", "I am Cnaiür urs Skiötha, most violent of all men! I bear your fathers and brothers… — R. Scott Bakker Parenting Copy Share Image
“The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered… — R. Scott Bakker Fool Copy Share Image
“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies.… — R. Scott Bakker Deceit Copy Share Image
“You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those… — R. Scott Bakker Lies Copy Share Image
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both… — R. Scott Bakker Warrior Copy Share Image
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Capitulation Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a… — R. Scott Bakker Children Copy Share Image
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that… — R. Scott Bakker Ignorance Copy Share Image
“He saw clearly now why he so loved this species of war. On the field of battle, his every act was open… — R. Scott Bakker Scrutiny Copy Share Image
“To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but… — R. Scott Bakker Soul Copy Share Image
“Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy Copy Share Image
There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Whore. How many men had embraced her? How many gritty chins against her cheek? Always something to be endured. All of them… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“They so wanted it to be simple, believers. "It is what is!" they cried, sneering at the possibility of other eyes, other… — R. Scott Bakker Truth Copy Share Image
“Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies--words--and so sank or floated with identical ease. But since truths were carved… — R. Scott Bakker Truth Copy Share Image
“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think… — R. Scott Bakker God Copy Share Image
“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.” — R. Scott Bakker Bored Copy Share Image
“One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker Anguish Copy Share Image
