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R. Scott Bakker has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save…
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What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and…
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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to…
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world.…
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered…
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep.…
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder,…
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them,…
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Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as…
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that…
— Isaac Asimov
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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is…
— Francis Bacon
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.
— Harry Vardon
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Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as…
— J C Ryle
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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It makes him hated above all things, as I have said, to be rapacious, and to be a violator of the property…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of…
— William James
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Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.
— Catherine of Aragon
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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into…
— George Washington
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Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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