PROPHECY QUOTES
quotations about prophets and prophecy
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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
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
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
Prophecy and prescience--How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction ... and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?
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
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
To know what will come is the same as to make it so.
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
FRANK HERBERT, Chapterhouse: Dune
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