Quotes by R. Scott Bakker

About R. Scott Bakker:

Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in literature and later an MA in theory and criticism. After nearly completing, but ultimately abandoning, a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he moved to London, Ontario, where he now lives with his wife.
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The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

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There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when ...

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

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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.

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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...

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Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

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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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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 lo...

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Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

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So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though m...

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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.

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

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

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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?

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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 t...

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

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Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, f...

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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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We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.

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Author Bio

  • NameR. Scott Bakker
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornFebruary 2, 1967
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist