Darkness shields as much as it threatens..

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

Complexity begets ambiguity, which yields in all ways to prejudice and avarice. Complication does not so much defeat Men as arm them with fancy..

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always af….

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..

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….

He had despised the sorcerer, thinking him one of those mewling souls who forever groaned beneath burdens of their own manufacture..

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

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 t….

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

Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic..

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

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

Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is….

Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his….

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to the billi….

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of anothe….

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

You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a tr….

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 wi….

Here we find further argument for Gotagga’s supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers?.