Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail. -R. Scott Bakker

 

Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.


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Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world.

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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
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Men are forever pointing at others, which is why I always follow the knuckle and not the nail.

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For the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over others.

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The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, which is infinite.It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them. -R. Scott Bakker
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Duty measures the distance between the animal and the divine.

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