Judge Holden

Character in Blood Meridian From: Blood Meridian

Mysterious, erudite antagonist and leader of the filibusters

394 quotes

"There is nothing sacred here"
Wisdom
"The world was made for blood"
War
"You are made of dust and to dust you shall return"
Death
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"The world cannot be lost. It is bound in the bodies of its inhabitants and cannot pass away."
Faith
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Wisdom
"Some things are true whether they have happened or not."
Truth
"The books of all men were written in dust."
Knowledge
"Men are born for games. Nothing else."
Philosophy
"The dying come no further. The dead too remain at their appointed stations."
Death
"Judgement is a sacred office and you shall see the nature of that office."
Justice
"What is war but the pursuit of truth by other means?"
War
"The world will burn in the fire of its own creation."
War
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"The freedom of birds is an insult to me."
Freedom
"What has occurred before will occur again."
History
"The world is everything that is the case."
Truth
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Knowledge
"I have studied all the sciences and found them incomplete."
Education
"The flowers of evil bloom regardless of our judgment."
Nature
"What evil exists is not in the world but in the hearts of men."
Philosophy
"All things move toward their end."
Time
"War cannot be reasoned with."
War
"What is beautiful is often terrible."
Beauty
"The strong survive; the weak perish. This is not cruelty, merely truth."
Strength
"All books are ultimately about the same thing."
Literature
"Whatever moves through the world shapes the world by moving through it."
Power
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"You think there is some place these things dont happen. There is no such place."
Truth
"The world cannot be lost. It exists independent of witness."