Soul Quotes by R. Scott Bakker

9 Soul quotes by R. Scott Bakker

Bakker’s dense, speculative style challenges the reader to probe the soul’s hidden layers, making each brief fragment a prompt for deeper thought.

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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.

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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…

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“When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.”

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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to…

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The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that…

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Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our…

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It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as…

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“No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but…

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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.…

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I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why…

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“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both against and…

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“The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God…

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There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

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Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

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“Sorweel: „Then how can we hope to resist him?“ Harweel: „With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and…

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“He struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared at the…

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“That hope is little more than the premonition of regret. This is the first lesson of history.”

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“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.”

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I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.

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“Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.”

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“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.”

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