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Men Quotes by R. Scott Bakker
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
- 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…
- 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…
- Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.
- 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,…
- I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . 'Why do Men fear the dark?' . . . 'Because darkness' he told me, 'is…
- Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
- Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
- History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.
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