“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.” — R. Scott Bakker Circle Copy Share Image
“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.” — R. Scott Bakker Finding oneself Copy Share Image
“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.” — R. Scott Bakker Indistinguishable Copy Share Image
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Breaths Copy Share Image
“Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.” — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
“We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.” — R. Scott Bakker Honesty Copy Share Image
“Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.” — R. Scott Bakker Suffer 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
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
“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
“The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep.” — R. Scott Bakker Defeated 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
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
“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.” — R. Scott Bakker History 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
“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
“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
“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
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 Comprehension 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
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
“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
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 Another man 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 Acknowledge 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 Resist Harweel 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
“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
“Masses of warring men animated the horizon, crashing into stubborn ranks, churning in melee. The air didn’t so much thunder as hiss… — R. Scott Bakker Assassin 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
“Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath… — R. Scott Bakker Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine.” — R. Scott Bakker Animals 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 Deep Copy Share Image
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker Compassion 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 Asked 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
“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
