Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.
R. Scott BakkerTo be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.
R. Scott BakkerHere we find further argument for Gotaggaโs supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?
R. Scott BakkerAchamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. โFoolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?
R. Scott Bakker