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I tell you the truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, The Devil and the Good Lord
All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN, God and the State
The best prophet is common sense.
EURIPIDES, as quoted in Explaining One's Self to Others: Reason-Giving in a Social Context
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
HEINRICH HEINE, "Lutetia; or, Paris," Augsberg Gazette, 1842
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