"Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish……" — R. Scott Bakker
"Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?"
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33 Quotes by R. Scott Bakker
R. Scott Bakker has 33 quotes on this site.
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Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no…
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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…
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To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told,…
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To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of…
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Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is…
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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…
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Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of…
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Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words…
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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…
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He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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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…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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