Your Science, which makes you great in your own eyes, is paltry indeed beside the light which bathes a Seer.[Vos sciences actuelles, ce qui vous fait grands à vos propres yeux, sont des misères auprès des lueurs dont sont inondés les Voyants.]
The best of prophets of the future is the past.
Prophecy is like a half-trained mule. It looks as though it might be useful, but the moment you trust in it, it kicks you in the head.
My God! the things one says – never dreaming or knowing they will come true.
Men inspired by prophecy will attempt any foolishness in the knowledge that the fates have ordained their victory.
Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.
Jesters do oft prove prophets.
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.
I tell you truly: all men on earth are prophets, or God does not exist.[Je vous le dis en vérité: tous les hommes sont Prophètes ou Dieu n’existe pas.]
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
And academic prophecy, finally, will create only fanatical sects but never a genuine community.[Und die Kathederprophetie wird vollends nur fanatische Sekten, aber nie eine echte Gemeinschaft schaffen.]
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
