"I write to inform you that during my most recent audience, the Nansur Emperor, quite without provocation, publicly addressed me as “fool.” You are, no doubt, unmoved by this. It has become a common occurrence. The Consult eludes us now more than ever. We hear them only in the secrets of others. We glimpse them only through the eyes of those who deny their very existence. Why should we not be called fools? The deeper the Consult secretes itself among the Great Factions, the madder our rantings sound to their ears. We are, as the damned Nansur would say, “a hunter in the thicket”—one who, by the very act of hunting, extinguishes all hope of running down his prey."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
ANONYMOUS MANDATE SCHOOLMAN, LETTER TO ATYERSUS
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Second_Apocalypse
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
The Second Apocalypse
171 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by The Second Apocalypse →
Related Quotes
"Men never resemble one another so much as when asleep or dead."
"The world has its own ways, sockets so deep that not even the Gods can dislodge them. No urn is so cracked as Fate."
"Everything is concealed always. Nothing is more trite than a mask."
"Things holy ... became mere versions of things unholy ... as though the words "holy" and "unholy" were as easily exch…"
"Achamian had crisscrossed the Three Seas, had seen many of those things that had once made his stomach flutter with s…"
"Avarice, it seemed to him, was the world's only dimension."
"There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others ."
"Above all the mighty detest change"
"Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery."
"Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world."