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Top 100 R. Scott Bakker Quotes (2024 Update)

R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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?”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Everyone thinks they’ve won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billions who disagree with them, have somehow lucked into the one true belief system.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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?”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Gods are but greater demons, the Cishaurim said, hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Ignorance is trust. –.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Dreams are the darkness that only slumber can illuminate.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “It is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “No intellect is orphaned, despite all the foundling hearts. All sons are born stranded because all fathers are sons. Every child is told, even those suckled on the teats of wolves.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “No decision is so fine as to not bind us to its consequences. No consequence is so unexpected as to absolve us of our decisions. Not even death.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Darkness shields as much as it threatens.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. –.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered – they are relived.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence, and no obscenity save the tyranny of custom.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Despite all the pain, all the wrenching loss, there is no greater glory than a complicated life.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Love is like sleep. One can never seize, never force love.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “If we’re nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Where hopes burn bright,” he said, “patience is quickly consumed.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Most men would rather die in deception than live in uncertainty.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world – something I could have fun destroying.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Let us be moved, you and I, by the things themselves. Let us discover each other.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence – nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “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.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Saying ‘I could have done more,’ Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “No soul moves alone through the world, Leweth. Our every thought stems from the thoughts of others. Our every word is but a repetition of world spoken before. Every time we listen, we allow the movements of another should to carry our own... NO one’s soul moves alone, Leweth. When one love dies, on must learn to love another.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “Sit with a merchant or sit with a beggar, and it’ll always be the beggar who buys your first drink.”
R. Scott Bakker Quote: “The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.”
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