"To be ignorant and to be deceived are……" — R. Scott Bakker
"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 is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?"
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33 Quotes by R. Scott Bakker
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