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.
R. Scott BakkerIf 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 BakkerThereโs faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and thereโs 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 theyโre not entirely certain theyโre in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the Godโs mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.
R. Scott BakkerThere was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
R. Scott BakkerTo 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