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The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2) QUOTES

The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2) QUOTES

41 " Beliefs were 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 Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

42 " Here we see philosophy brought to what is, in fact, a precarious position, which should be made fast even though it is supported by nothing in either heaven or earth. Here philosophy must show its purity as the absolute sustainer of its laws, and not as a herald of laws which implanted sense or who knows what tutelary nature whispers to it. –IMMANUEL KANT, FOUNDATIONS "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

43 " Ajencis,” he continued, “once wrote that all men are frauds. Some, the wise, fool only others. Others, the foolish, fool only themselves. And a rare few fool both others and themselves—they are the rulers of Men . . . "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

44 " To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation—not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

45 " You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

46 " What is the meaning of a deluded life? "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

47 " Almost to a man, the Men of Eärwa adhered without thought or knowledge to the customs of their people. A Conriyan didn’t shave because bare cheeks were effeminate. A Nansur didn’t wear leggings because they were crude. A Tydonni didn’t consort with dark-skinned peoples—or picks, as they called them—because they were polluted. For world-born men, such customs simply were. They gave precious food to statues of dead stone. They kissed the knees of weaker men. They lived in terror of their wanton hearts. They each thought themselves the absolute measure of all others. They felt shame, disgust, esteem, reverence … And they never asked why. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)

48 " Men, Kellhus had once told her, were like coins: they had two sides. Where one side of them saw, the other side of them was seen, and though all men were both at once, men could only truly know the side of themselves that saw and the side of others that was seen—they could only truly know the inner half of themselves and the outer half of others. "

― R. Scott Bakker , The Warrior Prophet (The Prince of Nothing, #2)