“You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those… — R. Scott Bakker Truth 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
“Water everywhere, falling in thundering cataracts, singular drops, and draping sheets. Kellhus paused next to one of the shining braziers, peered beneath… — R. Scott Bakker Absolute truth Copy Share Image
“The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep.” — R. Scott Bakker Love Copy Share Image
“We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies.… — R. Scott Bakker Philosophy Copy Share Image
To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to… — R. Scott Bakker Capitulation Copy Share Image
“Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
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 Beggar 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
“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 Faith 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
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
Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their… — R. Scott Bakker Argument Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Repression Copy Share Image
“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 Truth 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
“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 Hope Copy Share Image
“One might sooner wash shit from shit than cleanse a soul so wicked!” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God. — R. Scott Bakker Done Copy Share Image
“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 Truth Copy Share Image
“You’ve learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that… — R. Scott Bakker Ignorance Copy Share Image
“Esmenet had loved joking about cocks. She marvelled at the way men fussed over them, cursing, congratulating, beseeching, coaxing, commanding, even threatening… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Old women are more reconciled to death than old men. By bringing life to the world, we come to see ourselves as… — R. Scott Bakker Death 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
“When one believed, one´s soul moved. When one didn´t, everything else moved.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
