“... fot he sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. — R. Scott Bakker Differences 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
“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
“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 War 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
“That’s the horrible fact of sinners. We’re indistinguishable from the righteous.” — R. Scott Bakker Justice Copy Share Image
“Piety was simple, and the World, woefully complex. What was virtuous, what was holy: these were verities that only the simple and… — R. Scott Bakker 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
“Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly -- only varieties of sorrow.” — R. Scott Bakker Anger 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 Fool 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 Spirituality Copy Share Image
“We must speak plainly. Only honesty provides truth. Only truth delivers triumph.” — R. Scott Bakker Honesty Copy Share Image
“Duty measures the distance between animal and the divine.” — R. Scott Bakker Animals 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 God Copy Share Image
“The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.” — R. Scott Bakker 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
“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he… — R. Scott Bakker Asking 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
Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder,… — R. Scott Bakker Boulders Copy Share Image
Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In… — R. Scott Bakker Beggar Copy Share Image
