To 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 BakkerFaith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.
R. Scott BakkerThere was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
R. Scott BakkerSomething ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.
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