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Faith of the Fallen

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Terry Goodkind - Sword of Truth 6
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Added: 31-Jan-2015
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The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason.  The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is.  From this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built.  This is the foundation from which life is embraced.  Reason is a choice.  Wishes and whims are not facts, nor are they a means to discovering them.  Reason is our only way of grasping reality - it's our basic tool of survival.  We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss we refuse to see.
Well, you have a good start.  Admitting that you don't know something is the first step to learning....  Every day, I amaze myself with all I don't know.

Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander
A leader cannot follow behind people, tail between his legs, sniffing for their momentary whims and wishes, whining to follow them this way and that as they ramble through life.  Those kind of people are not looking for a leader - they are looking for a master, and one will find them.  A true leader forges a clear path through a moral wilderness so that people might see the way.

Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander
The truth of a situation most often turns out to be that one with the simplest explanation.

Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander
If an idea was sound, it had to have a life beyond a leader, or the leader had failed.
Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
...the first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. He said that was the foundation from which life is embraced.
Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.

Faith of the Fallen
Terry Goodkind
Zeddicus Zu’l Zorander
Life is precious.  That's why sacrifice for freedom is rational: it is for life itself and your ability to live it that you act, since life without freedom is the slow, sure death of self-sacrifice to the 'good' of mankind - who is always someone else.  Mankind is just a collection of individuals.  Why should everyone's life be more important, more precious, more valuable than yours?  Mindless mandatory self-sacrifice is insane.
'Profit' is a dirty word only to the leeches of the world.  They want it seen as evil, so they can more easily snatch what they did not earn.
His face might have been fresh, but his ideas were not; tyranny was ancient, even if Neal deluded himself in believing it the bright new salvation of mankind when applied by him and his fellows.
Good.  Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
Under the direction of the brothers, the collective of the Order, like any autocratic ruler, ultimately ruled only by the acquiesce of the people, who were controlled either by moral intimidation, or by physical threat, or by both.  Tyranny required constant tending, lest the illusion of righteous authority evaporate in the light of its grim toll, and the brutes be overpowered by the people who greatly outnumbered them.
She understood, now, why life had seemed so empty, so pointless: she herself had rendered it so in refusing to think.  Nicci had been a slave to everyone of need.  She had given her masters their only real weapon against her; she had surrendered to their twisted lies by putting the crippling chains of guilt around her own neck for them, giving herself freely into slavery to the whims and wishes of others instead of living her life as she should have - for herself.  She had never asked why it was right for her to be a slave to another’s desires, but not evil for them to enslave her.  She was not contributing to the betterment of mankind, but was merely a servant to countless puling little tyrants.  Evil was not one large entity, but a ceaseless torrent of small wrongs left unchallenged, until they festered into monsters.

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Terry Goodkind  
Birth: Cir 01 Jan 1948 Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Death: 17 Sep 2020 Boulder City, Nevada, USA

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