Eksempler på prophecy

• If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent.

• In the 1960s, some very vivid prophecies about the relationship of telecommunications and the city were made.

• However, there is reason to warn against too hasty a conclusion in this regard and against those very pessimistic prophecies.

• To this extent, the variables used in surveys represent self-fulfilling prophecies.

• When they are not reckless, our gambles about practices amount to self-fulfilling prophecies: they change our relation to nature or to other people so as to make themselves more real.

• I use the word adds here because the real difficulties, the important contextual conditions, the soil in which such prophecies flourish, have to do with power and dominance.

• In spite of numerous prophecies of the imminent death of many languages, linguists always find a handful of old people who still speak them and can be competent consultants.

• The series of high medieval prophecies under discussion was transmitted, with a large degree of variation, as much by manuscript illustrations as by any common text.