To 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 BakkerThe world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.
R. Scott BakkerWhat if the choice isnโt between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?
R. Scott BakkerBeliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
R. Scott BakkerGods 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?
R. Scott Bakker