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
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
“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
“I am a warrior of ages, Anasurimbor ... ages. I have dipped my nimil in a thousand hearts. I have ridden both… — R. Scott Bakker 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
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
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
“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 struck his own fire, listened to the night wind roar through the trees. Sometimes, when he could see it, he stared… — R. Scott Bakker Children 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
“For all things there is a toll. We pay in breaths, and our purse is soon empty.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. — R. Scott Bakker Destroying Copy Share Image
“Only madmen and historians, he said, believe their lies.” — R. Scott Bakker History Copy Share Image
“Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.” — R. Scott Bakker Sleep 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 Left hand 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 Copy Share Image
“For whatever reason, heavy drinking at once intensified and deadened the Dreams. The way they slurred into one another made them seem… — R. Scott Bakker Dreams 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
What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and… — R. Scott Bakker Certainty 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
“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
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
Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. — R. Scott Bakker Compassion Copy Share Image
The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny.… — R. Scott Bakker Bondage Copy Share Image
