History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all… — R. Scott Bakker Determine 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
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
It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as… — R. Scott Bakker Funny 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
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. — R. Scott Bakker Differences 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
I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying. — R. Scott Bakker Cosmopolitan 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 Piety 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
“A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyo but the king. Too often, the measure… — R. Scott Bakker Failure 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
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
Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder… — R. Scott Bakker Belief Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Belief 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
You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.… — R. Scott Bakker Black Copy Share Image
“Screens of tumbling water, breaking the world beyond them into glittering lines and smeared shadows. Kellhus had ceased trying to penetrate them.… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy 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
“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
“So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did… — R. Scott Bakker Enlightenment 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
“Sheltered by his caste, Sarcellus had not, as the impoverished must, made fear the pivot of his passions. As a result he… — R. Scott Bakker Fear Copy Share Image
“Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights… — R. Scott Bakker Language Copy Share Image
“Helplessness. If women were hope´s oldest companions, it was due to helplessness. Certainly women often exerciced dreadful power over a single hearth,… — R. Scott Bakker Helplessness 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
“It is strange the way trauma deadens curiosity. To suffer cruelty in excess is to be delivered from care. The human heart… — R. Scott Bakker Human heart Copy Share Image
Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without… — R. Scott Bakker Action 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
Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,… — R. Scott Bakker Effort Copy Share Image
