Prophecy
Speaking for God or foretelling the future, as in the prophets of Scripture and the oracles of antiquity.
Works to read
- The Theban Plays by Sophocles, c. 429–401 BCE · Great Books
- Henry VIII by William Shakespeare, 1613 · Great Books
- The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes, 3rd century BC
- The Koran by Anonymous (Islamic scripture), c. 610–632 CE
- Logical Writings on Binary Arithmetic and Universal Character by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, 1679-1703
- Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797 (published 1816)
- Shall Turkey Live or Die? by Thomas Carlyle, 1854
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883-1885
- Sermons and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr., 1955-1963
- The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In by Hugh Kennedy, 2007
Passages
From the texts
The best Prophet naturally is the best guesser; and the best guesser, he that is most versed and studied in the matters he guesses at: for he hath most Signes to guesse by.
— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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