Judge Holden

Character in Blood Meridian From: Blood Meridian

Mysterious, erudite antagonist and leader of the filibusters

394 quotes

"There is no such thing as fate."
Philosophy
"War endures. By it all other trades are measured."
War
"To order knowledge by categories is to falsify it."
Philosophy
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Power
"Nature is not a garden but a wilderness."
Philosophy
"All of this earth will die and all that is in it."
Death
"The judge spoke of the nature of war and of men's enterprises in war"
War
"You think that you are not witnessing a revelation"
Wisdom
"There is no such thing as life. There is only degrees of death"
Death
"He sat on his horse and studied the country before him"
Wisdom
"The universe is a rather strange place"
Philosophy
"The world exists in a state of war"
War
"What has occurred once will occur again"
History
"He is an unusual fellow"
"What is past is prologue"
History
"Madness and genius are neighbors"
Wisdom
"Men are made for war"
War
"Nothing is exempt from the law"
Justice
"What is written cannot be unwritten"
Truth
"The stars do not lie"
Truth
"He spoke of the earth and the stones and the rising of blood"
Wisdom
"The world is everything that is the case"
Philosophy
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed"
War
"What is not in the ledger does not exist"
Truth
"Whatever is inscribed in stone endures"
History
"What man does not learn he repeats"
Wisdom
"Whatever moves must kill to live"
Life
"In the book of all that ever was"
Philosophy
"What is written in blood cannot be unwritten"
Truth
"All violence is a form of communication"
Philosophy