“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. —”
― The Darkness that Comes Before
― The Darkness that Comes Before
“Truths were carved from the identical wood as were lies—words—and so sank or floated with equal ease.”
― The White Luck Warrior
― The White Luck Warrior
“Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. —”
― The Great Ordeal
― The Great Ordeal
“few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.”
― The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)
― The Warrior Prophet: The Prince of Nothing, Book Two (The Prince of Nothing)
“more than anything, it was ignorance that delivered conviction beyond the pale of disputation. Ignorance of questions. Ignorance of alternatives. No tyranny was so complete as blindness.”
― The Great Ordeal
― The Great Ordeal
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