All R. Scott Bakker Quotes
- Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence,… Crime
- What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it? Certainties
- To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements… Capitulation
- To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived… All
- Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are… All
- Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. All
- The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. Anguish
- You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither… Black
- Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders… Both
- Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness… Censoring
- Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the… Belief
- He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture. Beneath
- Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of… Beggar
- Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you… Across
- Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy. All
- It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which… Define
- Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing. Another Faith
- Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills. Begets
- The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you,… All
- There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated. Beauty