#prophets

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#prophets #quackery #faith

Prophets borrow the omniscience of God to speak with the insolence of angels. But we are only impressed with their authority when they talk to us humbly, as men of inferior rank. ↗

— Bauvard

#authority #god #prophets #men

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man. ↗

— Diogenes

#contemptible #i #look #man #men

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#burns #evil #fire #lips #our

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#many #messiah #promise #prophets #science

Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#appealed #fact #first #first thing #great

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#death #love #martyrs #men #prophets

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#armed #been #comes #destroyed #hence

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

#halt #human #human reason #limit #must

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ceased #fate #makers #our #pose