R. Scott Bakker

“Above all the mighty detest change.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“Ignorance is trust. —”

— R. Scott Bakker

“War is intellect. ”

— R. Scott Bakker

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

— R. Scott Bakker

“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“Mystery made thing gigantic. Knowledge made small.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“Like a stern father, war shames men into hating their childhood games.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“Almost all men prized the familiar path over the true.”

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

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

Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.

— R. Scott Bakker

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

— R. Scott Bakker

“. . . and that revelation murdered all that I once did know. Where once I asked of the God, 'Who are…

— R. Scott Bakker

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.”

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

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

— R. Scott Bakker

“Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine.”

— R. Scott Bakker

“Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb.”

— R. Scott Bakker