I remember asking a wise man, once, ‘Why do men fear the dark?’ ‘Because darkness’ he told me, ‘is ignorance made visible.’ ‘And do men despise ignorance?’, I asked. ‘No!’, he said, ‘they prize it above all things—all things! - but only so long as it remains invisible.’
I remember asking a wise man, once,
‘Why do men fear the dark?’
‘Because darkness’ he told me, ‘is ignorance made visible.’
‘And do men despise ignorance?’, I asked.
‘No!’, he said, ‘they prize it above all things—all things! - but only so long as it remains invisible.’
– R. Scott Bakker: The Judging Eye
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– R. Scott Bakker: The Judging Eye