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….

Where no paths exist, a man strays only when he misses his destination. There is no crime, no transgression, no sin save foolishness or incompetence,….

Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinkin….

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

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….

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

Darkness shields as much as it threatens..

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

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….

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….

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

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

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..