# Quote — R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior-Prophet

> How does one learn innocence? How does one teach ignorance? For to be them is to know them not. And yet they are the immovable point from which the compass of life swings, the measure of all crime and compassion, the rule of all wisdom and folly. They are the Absolute.

- Author: [R. Scott Bakker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker.md)
- Book: [The Warrior-Prophet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker/the-warrior-prophet.md)
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## More from this book

> ... for the sin of the idolator is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

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> Like many old tyrants, I dote upon my grandchildren. I delight in their tantrums, their squealing laughter, their peculiar fancies. I willfully spoil them with honey sticks. And I find myself wondering at their blessed ignorance of the world and its million grinning teeth. Should I, like my grandfather, knock such childishness from them? Or should I indulge their delusions? Even now, as death's shadow pickets gather about me, I ask, Why should innocence answer to the world? Perhaps the world should answer to innocence ...
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> Yes, I rather like that. I tire of bearing the blame.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker/the-warrior-prophet/like-many-old.md)

> For men, no circle is ever closed. We walk ever in spirals.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/r-scott-bakker/the-warrior-prophet/for-men-no-circle.md)