#prophets

In that face, deformed by hatred of philosophy, I saw for the first time the portrait of the Antichrist, who does not come from the tribe of Judas, as his heralds have it, or from a far country. The Antichrist can be born from piety itself, from excessive love of God or of the truth, as the heretic is born from the saint and the possessed from the seer. Fear prophets, Adso, 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. Jorge did a diabolical thing because he loved his truth so lewdly that he dared anything in order to destroy falsehood. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fanaticism #prophets #religion #love

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church. ↗

— William Ames

#absolutely #any #assent #church #even

I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Maurice Strong

#convinced #doom #i #i am #prophets

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#else #exist #god #i #men

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#call #desert #driven #false #honored

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

Jesters do often prove prophets. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#prophets #prove

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

For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles. ↗

— Origen

#being #concealed #knew #made #manifest