Divination Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Divination.
Top Quotes
“Determinism”
“Mercury (mythology)”
“The songs of a city are its diviners.”
“Criticism is properly the rod of divination.”
“[A]spiration is a kind of divination of an enigmatic vision.”
“There is a deep, ancient connection between gambling and divination.”
“Divination has always embraced strange, ultimately disproved customs.”
“Wikipedia: Divination”
“Wikisource: Divination”
“Wikicommons: Divination”
“Wiktionary: Divination”
“DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.”
“David Zeitlyn and others on African Divination systems: Africa Divination: Mambila and others”
“Greek Divination: a study of its methods and principles, William Reginald Halliday, Macmillan, 1913, 309pp - a complete scanned edition of a general treatment of Greek divination (at Google Books)”
“Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Divination" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.”
“(About demons) Sometimes, however, they predict beforehand, not things they themselves are doing, but things which they know by natural signs are going to take place. [...] Sometimes also they learn with complete ease the dispositions of human beings not only as they are expressed in speech, but also as they are conceived in thought, when certain signs from the mind are expressed in the body, and on this basis predict even many things that will come to pass, things wondrous to others, who have not known these things which were so disposed.”
“The purpose of the I Ching or the tarot […] is to help you get access to yourself, by providing ambiguity for you to interpret. And this quality of ambiguity is shared with nearly all forms of divination — cast artifacts, or entrails, or weather formations, or events such as the flight of birds, that one could choose either to see as "omens" or to ignore.
The very thing that makes these divination techniques seem so unscientific is what makes it possible for them to work.”