R. Scott Bakker

Quotes

1. 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.

2. 

   The proposition "I am the centre" need never be uttered. It is the assumption upon which all certainty and all doubt turns.

3. 

   The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, who is infinite.

   It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.

4. 

   ... and my soldiers, they say, make idols of their swords. But does not the sword make certain? Does not the sword make plain? Does not the sword compel kindness from those who kneel in its shadow? I need no other God.

5. 

   Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance.

6. 

   To piss across water is to piss across your reflection.

7. 

   What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next?

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