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Richard Scott Bakker is a Canadian fantasy author and frequent lecturer in the South Western Ontario university community. He grew up on a tobacco farm in the Simcoe area. In 1986 he attended the University of Western Ontario to pursue a degree in literature and later an MA in theory and criticism. Since the late 1990s, he has been attempting to elucidate theories of media bubbles and the intellectual alienation of the working class. After all but dissertation in a PhD in philosophy at Vanderbilt University he returned to London, Ontario where he now lives with his wife and daughter. He spends his time writing split between his fiction and his ongoing philosophic inquiry. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. February 1967  •  Other names Річард Скотт Беккер, ريتشارد باكر
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Works

The Darkness That Comes Before
The Judging Eye
The Judging Eye
R. Scott Bakker
The Thousandfold Thought
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Famous R. Scott Bakker Quotes

“Darkness shields as much as it threatens.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye

Source: The Judging Eye

“Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. “Foolish 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

“Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Warrior Prophet

Ajencis, The Third Analytic of Men
Source: The Warrior Prophet (2005)

“This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before

“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before

“Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

Source: The Darkness That Comes Before

R. Scott Bakker Quotes about men

“I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Thousandfold Thought

HATATIAN, EXHORTATIONS
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)

“The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.”

R. Scott Bakker

TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
The White Luck Warrior (2011)

“Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.”

R. Scott Bakker

AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN.
The White Luck Warrior (2011)

R. Scott Bakker Quotes about the world

“I wanted a literate, socially intricate, and cosmopolitan world - something I could have fun destroying.”

R. Scott Bakker

"Interview with R. Scott Bakker" http://www.sffworld.com/interview/7p0.html, SFFWorld.com, 2004-07-18 (accessed 2006-04-14)

“The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.”

R. Scott Bakker

"A Conversation with R. Scott Bakker, Part I" http://www.wotmania.com/fantasymessageboardshowmessage.asp?MessageID=141281, wotmania.com, 2005-11-01 (accessed 2006-04-14)

“The 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 Bakker book The Judging Eye

AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN
The Judging Eye (2009)

“If 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 Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

ZARATHINIUS, A DEFENCE OF THE ARCANE ARTS
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)

R. Scott Bakker Quotes

“Doubt begets understanding, and understanding begets compassion. Verily, it is conviction that kills.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Thousandfold Thought

Source: The Thousandfold Thought

“A beggar’s mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king’s mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Judging Eye

TRIAMIS I, JOURNALS AND DIALOGUES
Source: The Judging Eye (2009)

“Every monumental work of the State is measured by cubits. Every cubit is measured by the length of the Aspect-Emperor’s arm. And the Aspect-Emperor’s arm, they say, stands beyond measure. But I say the Aspect-Emperor’s arm is measured by the length of a cubit, and that all cubits are measured by the works of the State. Not even the All stands beyond measure, for it is more than what lies within it, and “more” is a kind of measure. Even the God has His cubits.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Warrior Prophet

IMPARRHAS, PSÜKALOGUES
The Warrior Prophet (2005)

“If it is only after that we understand what has come before, then we understand nothing. Thus we shall define the soul as follows: that which precedes everything.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Darkness That Comes Before

AJENCIS, THE THIRD ANALYTIC OF MEN
The Darkness That Comes Before (2004)

“To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.”

R. Scott Bakker book The Thousandfold Thought

SCYLVENDI PROVERB
The Thousandfold Thought (2006)

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