Judge Holden

Character in Blood Meridian From: Blood Meridian

Mysterious, erudite antagonist and leader of the filibusters

394 quotes

"What moves men to courage is mystery, and what is it that this band have seen but a mystery?"
Courage
"The child is the father of the man and all knowledge begins in the eye."
Knowledge
"War is god and god is war and they have always been one and the same."
War
"In the final analysis the universe itself is a kind of text and we are the readers."
Philosophy
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent and therefore it does not truly exist at all."
Philosophy
"In the end all things return to dust and to silence and to the darkness from which they came."
Death
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Power
"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
Wisdom
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."
Beauty
"The world cannot be known by the methods by which it is commonly known."
Knowledge
"There is no man can make a covenant with."
Philosophy
"He said that war was god's way of teaching geography."
War
"All things fall and are built again and those that build them again are not you."
Change
"Whatever his antecedents he would always come before them."
Power
"The world is everything that is the case."
Philosophy
"What is music."
Art
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters."
Wisdom
"War crimes and crimes against humanity."
War
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed."
Life
"The universe is a system of which the greatest system of all is God, and the smallest system of all is the atom, and all systems are God."
Philosophy
"The night does not come from the darkness. The darkness comes from the night."
Wisdom
"Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Power
"The world is everything that is the case. The great machine of the universe."
Philosophy
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
"There is no such thing as a true history."
History
"War is god."
War
"In the nature of things there is no blemish but the world."
Wisdom
"You think you're an exception. You're not."
Truth
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Philosophy
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Wisdom