#prophecies

To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy. ↗

— Peter Koevari

#death

Oracular ambiguity or statical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#foretellers #prophecies #faith

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#important #man #more #often #prophecies

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#absolute power #also #come #lie #lies

Indeed the three prophecies about the death of individual art are, in their different ways, those of Hegel, Marx, and Freud. I don't see any way of getting beyond those prophecies. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#any #art #beyond #death #different