The Darkness That Comes Before

Some quotes:

"...though he consorts with man, woman, and child, though he lays with beasts and makes a mockery of his seed, never shall he be as licentious as the philosopher, who lays with all things imaginable"

"Children questioned as much to be rebuffed as to be answered, as they must in order to learn which questions were permissible and which were not."

"We seek absolute awareness, the self-moving thought. The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?"

From Scott Bakker's The Darkness That Comes Before: Book 1 of the Prince of Nothing.