Precognition Quotes

“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth and religion, for our stubborn, blind belief in extrasensory powers, in telepathy and precognition, in demons and demigods and resurrection and reincarnation and ghosts and messiahs and so many other categories of almost-but-not-quite satisfying bullshit.”

“If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell?”

“Can one come 2 conclusions,Before the question is conceived?”

“The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.”

“No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.”

“Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)”

“If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe.”

“If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.”

“But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true.”