What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? They is cry. Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.”, “If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.”, “Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.”, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. A creature that can do anything." It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. Quotes By Cormac McCarthy. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”, “Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. For the argument is indeed trivial, but not so the separate wills thereby made manifest. All Quotes Before man was, war waited for him. A man falling dead in a duel is not thought thereby to be proven in error as to his views. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. 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Sometime come the mother. Historical law subverts it at every turn. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistable. Best not to look in there.”, “They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”, “That man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.”, “Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”, “There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”, “This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification.”, “War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence.”, “He never sleeps, the judge. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. “This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Make a machine. Superstition will drag him down. War is god.”, “A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. And a machine to make the machine. That way and not some other way.”, “There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”, “This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”, “Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Let him play for stakes. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day. If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? A creature that can do anything. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. “All other trades are contained in that of war. And again. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. He can know his heart, but he don’t want to. What other creature could? Best not to look in there. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. A creature that can do anything. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Quotes, “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”. Before man was, war waited for him. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well.