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«The Greek grasped the present moment, and was the artist; the Jew worshipped the timeless spirit, and was the prophet»
Author: Isaac Mayer Wise
(Rabbi)
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«The Biblical prophet doesn't predict the future, but bears witness to the presense of God in history.»
«To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation ? not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.»
«Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp»
Author: Heinrich Heine
(Poet, Writer)
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«The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.»
Author: Margaret Mead
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«The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.»
«To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an non-teachable brat, well birched and none the wiser»
«The complete fool is half prophet»
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