You think that you have learned much, whereas in truth you are most ignorant.

The commonest of the outer nations, when I destroyed them, knew more than your wisest know today." "You are mistaken, Oro; since then we have learned something of the soul." "Ah!" he exclaimed, "that interests me and perhaps it is true.

Also, if true it is very important, as I have told you before--or was it Bastin?
If a man has a soul, he lives, whereas even we Sons of Wisdom die, and in Death what is the use of Wisdom?
Because you can believe, you have souls and are therefore, perhaps, heirs to life, foolish and ignorant as you are today.

Therefore I admit you and Bastin to be my equals, though Bickley, who like myself believes nothing, is but a common chemist and doctor of disease." "Then you bow to Faith, Oro ?" "Yes, and I think that my god Fate also bows to Faith.

Perhaps, indeed, Faith shapes Fate, not Fate, Faith.