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R. Scott Bakker

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

R. Scott Bakker

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy.

complexity, man

R. Scott Bakker

Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

darkness, pg-342

R. Scott Bakker

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

anguish, blame, recovery, responsibility, suffering

R. Scott Bakker

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.

individuality, philosophy

R. Scott Bakker

The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas–at least not first and foremost. They march to save their wives and children. Their tribes and their nations. If they learn that the world, their world, slips into ruin behind them, that their wives and daughters may perish for want of their shields, their swords, the Host of Hosts would melt about the edges, then collapse.

R. Scott Bakker

I remeber asking a wise man, once . . . ‘Why do Men fear the dark?’ . . . ‘Because darkness’ he told me, ‘is ignorance made visable.’ ‘And do Men despise ignorance?’ I asked. ‘No,’ he said, ‘they prize it above all things–all things!–but only so long as it remains invisible.

dark, fear, ignorance, pg-323

R. Scott Bakker

Hoga Gothyelk no longer felt anger, not truly — only varieties of sorrow.

fantasy, insight

R. Scott Bakker

Something … made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

fantasy, insight

R. Scott Bakker

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic.

fantasy, insight

R. Scott Bakker

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

fantasy, insight

R. Scott Bakker

Saying ‘I could have done more,’ Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

inspirational, wisdom