"To be a student required a peculiar kind……" — R. Scott Bakker
"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 of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade."
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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 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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Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good…
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More Capitulation Quotes
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I myself and my wife - in order to escape the disgrace of deposition or capitulation - choose death. It…
— Adolf Hitler
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I'm disappointed, depressed, and demoralized. [...] It is very hard to avoid the conclusion that President Bush flinched from a…
— William Kristol
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My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was…
— Kate Christensen
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We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power…
— Elif Safak
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Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession.
— Jalal Talabani
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There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - even calculated…
— Ehud Barak
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Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.
— Emanuel Cleaver
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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To those who say that they are Christian and gay, what we must keep in mind is that absent in…
— Erwin W. Lutzer
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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
— George P. Shultz
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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