Best Quotes by R. Scott Bakker (Top 10)
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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, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?
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Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
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This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
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There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
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Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
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A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.
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Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.
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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. 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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Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
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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, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
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More R. Scott Bakker Quotes
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Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
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If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.
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Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.
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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 invisible, and are all Men made fools.
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Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.
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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.
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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. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.
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To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.
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