The most important rule there is, the Wizard’s Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.
Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.
We don’t want to lose you Lord Rahl. We don’t want to go back to way things were.” She sounded on the verge of tears. “We like being able to do simple things, like make a joke, and laugh. We could never do such things before. We always lived in fear that if we said the wrong thing we would be beaten, or worse. Now that we have seen another way, we don’t want to go back to that. If you throw your life away for the Midlands, then we will.- Cara.
Faith and feelings are the darkness to reason’s light. “Reason is the very substance of truth itself. The glory that is life is wholly embraced through reason, through this rule. In rejecting it, in rejecting reason, one embraces death.
It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.
Take care, Seeker. You have the gift. Use it. Use everything you have to fight. Don’t give in. Don’t let him rule you. If you are to die, die fighting with everything you have, everything you know. That is the way of a dragon.
It is a mistake to say something cannot be done simply because you don’t know how to do it.
To those who would dominate you, knowledge must be crushed, because people who understand are people who will stand against the unfairness of the elite.
And right now you’re doing it backwards. You are only concentrating on why the problem is impossible. You are not thinking of the solution.
This is how tyrants win the will of the people: with lies.
In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.
He knew, though, that there was no such thing as fair in life. Existence had no agenda. Life simply existed. It was up to them to fight for life to be worthwhile and good if that was what they wanted.
You can’t help how you feel and I understand that. Sometimes a person can’t talk their heart out of how it feels, despite how hard you try.
We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.
She had lived her whole life on shifting quicksand, where reason and the intellect were not to be trusted, where only faith was valid, and blind faith was sacred. She, herself, had enforced mindless conformity to that empty evil.
Slaves, slaves to anything or anyone, despite how much they abhor it, will often cling to that slavery out of fear the alternative would be insufferable.
In the end, people believed what they wanted to believe. The truth had very little to do with it.
Such beliefs were born in man’s willful refusal to use his mind, in his lust for the unearned, his wish for success without effort. Such beliefs were the embodiment of hatred for all that was good, hatred for virtue, hatred for value. It was ultimately a hatred of themselves, of life, of existence. It was that hate, that dedication to death, that was the true manifestation of evil.
Your loveliness is not a mask, layered over a rotten core. It blossoms from the beauty inside.