#prophets

The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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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

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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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

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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

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We must believe what is good and true about the prophets, that they were sages, that they did understand what proceeded from their mouths, and that they bore prudence on their lips. ↗

— Origen

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

— Karl Popper

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There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion. ↗

— Cat Stevens

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We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and sacrifice will be stoned and pelted by those who wish to preserve at all costs their own contentment. This is not a lesson that is confined to the Testaments. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #brave-new-world #history #martyrs #old-testament

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