Raymond Aron Quotes

Foreknowledge is a wonderful thing.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

I do like the idea of consequence and how our actions play themselves out, but I am completely scared of knowing what the future would be like. I would never go near a fortune teller, even though it's probably not even real. I just don't wanna know.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.

Marethyu stretched out his right hand and Aten took it in his. "Let me tell you this," the hook-handed man said. "We will meet again,you and I,in a different place and a different time." "You know this to be true?" "I do." "Because you have seen the future?" "Because I have been there.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

My whole life was foretold to me. An old Romany gypsy read my fortune.

You can't know what the future holds, though you might conjecture on it, and if you're psychic, you might venture a guess.

When we get to the future, I'll determine the future.

Dreams sometimes foretell the future.

I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.

I do believe in prophecy.

I can't predict the future, nor will I. I'm not a fortune teller.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

I'm a fortune teller, but I don't like to know my future.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

The world is a chessboard, Madam, on which we play out our ploys and follies. You are the Queen, of course. Your moves are the strongest. For myself, I claim only to be a knight, advancing in a crooked progress. Do we move ourselves, do you think, or does a great gloved hand place on our squares

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

He's waiting for yu, young queen.' Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?' The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.