Terry Goodkind author of the enormously popular Sword of Truth novels, has forged perhaps his best novel yet, pitting Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell against threats to the freedom of the world that will take them to opposite ends of the world to defeat the forces of chaos and anarchy. Emperor... read more
“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 the foundation from which life is embraced.”Richard Rahl
“Do you want to hear the way it is, or do you want to yell at someone? If you just want to spout off to no point and no useful end, then go right ahead as I'm not much injured by ranting, but when you finally want to hear the truth of the way things are, just let me know and I'll give it.”Richard Rahl
“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.”Richard Rahl
Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”Highlighted by 86 Kindle customers
“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.Highlighted by 84 Kindle customers
“The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists; what is, is.Highlighted by 71 Kindle customers
first law of reason is that what exists, exists; what is, is, and that from this irreducible, bedrock principle, all knowledge is built.Highlighted by 69 Kindle customers
“The truth of a situation most often turns out to be that one with the simplest explanation.”Highlighted by 60 Kindle customers
“‘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.”Highlighted by 60 Kindle customers
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.”Highlighted by 56 Kindle customers
“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.”Highlighted by 44 Kindle customers
To fail to use reason in this, to fail to think, is intellectual anarchy.”Highlighted by 34 Kindle customers
“Good. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.”Highlighted by 13 Kindle customers
Preceded by Soul of the Fire, and followed by The Pillars of Creation.
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