#kellhus

[andreai04]

"When we believe without ground or cause, Proyas, conviction is all we possess, and acts of conviction become our only demonstration. Our beliefs become our God, and we make sacrifices to appease them."

Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute—not knowledge!

[andreai04]

“What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?”

[andreai04]

Some events mark us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts. Some events are not remembered—they are relived.

Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world.

[shonelikethesun]

Barbarity is simply a word for unfamiliarity that threatens

Kellhus in The Warrior Prophet, pg 98, by Scott Bakker

[nicdevera]

Nothing could be so gratifying as his approval. Nothing could be so profound as his discourse.

[chaouenmadrid]

Now reading PRINCE OF NOTHING, from R. Scott Baker.

I'm reading the second book and I'm totally hooked on the plot and characters, they are so complex sometimes I need to slow the reading. They are best way to stand the wait until GRRM writes WOW. Has anyone read them?

[windsofentropy]

He was a wayfarer through the abyssal gallery of mirror set against mirror, his every step as illusory as the last. Only sun and night marked his passage, and only then by narrowing the gap between mirrors to the impossible place where vanishing point threatened to kiss vanishing point—to the place where the soul fell utterly still.

R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

[shonelikethesun]

Kellhus is interesting in the way my Philosophy professor was interesting in College

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