“When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.” — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.” — R. Scott Bakker Anger Copy Share Image
“Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine.” — R. Scott Bakker Animals Copy Share Image
“Stupid men, Conphas had found, tended to be excessively proud of their few brilliant moments.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker Compassion Copy Share Image
There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. — R. Scott Bakker Beauty Copy Share Image
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. — R. Scott Bakker Burden Copy Share Image
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their… — R. Scott Bakker Argument Copy Share Image
“Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save… — R. Scott Bakker Crime Copy Share Image
This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after,… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“For Nautzera there was no present, only the clamour of a harrowing past and the threat of a corresponding future. For Nautzera,… — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which… — R. Scott Bakker Absolution Copy Share Image
A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as… — R. Scott Bakker Belief Copy Share Image
“Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights… — R. Scott Bakker Language Copy Share Image
“If we’re nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our… — R. Scott Bakker Movements Copy Share Image
“All Kellhus could see of his father were two fingers and a thumb lying slack upon a bare thigh. The thumbnail gleamed.… — R. Scott Bakker Faith Copy Share Image
“Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our… — R. Scott Bakker Communication Copy Share Image
“While waiting for the hidden machinery of messengers and secretaries to relay his request, Achamian wandered into an adjoining courtyard, struck by… — R. Scott Bakker Change the world Copy Share Image
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Do not mistake me, Inrithi. In this much Conphas is right. You are all staggering drunks to me. Boys who would play… — R. Scott Bakker War Copy Share Image
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy Copy Share Image
“And he now knew with certainty that the world was hollowed of its wonder by knowledge and travel, that when one stripped… — R. Scott Bakker Travel Copy Share Image
“Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.” — R. Scott Bakker Blackness Copy Share Image
“That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.” — R. Scott Bakker Justice Copy Share Image
“. . . and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as… — R. Scott Bakker Funny Copy Share Image
Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our… — R. Scott Bakker Clarity Copy Share Image
“What did it mean to a prophet to sing in a God´s own voice? Would that make him a shaman, as in… — R. Scott Bakker Prophet Copy Share Image
History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
