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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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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,…
— Francis Bacon
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.
— Andre Maurois
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death.
— Bertrand Russell
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Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and…
— Bertrand Russell
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Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural…
— Thomas Hobbes
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The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
— Frances Lear
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What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
— Epicurus
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Men fear most what they cannot see.
— Liam Neeson
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Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings…
— Giacomo Leopardi
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Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead
— Quintus Ennius
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