Geburtstag: 14. Dezember 1503
Todesdatum: 2. Juli 1566
Nostradamus, latinisiert für Michel de Nostredame, war ein französischer Apotheker und hat als Arzt und Astrologe gearbeitet. Schon zu seinen Lebzeiten machten ihn seine prophetischen Gedichte berühmt, welche aus Gruppen von je 100 zusammengefassten Vierzeilern bestanden, den sogenannten Centurien.
— Nostradamus
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— Nostradamus
Last words, as quoted in Famous Last Words: The Ultimate Collection of Finales and Farewells (2004) by Laura Ward and Robert Allen; reported to have been said to his secretary Jean de Chavigny
— Nostradamus
Context: Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. We need god to prosper those without him will not.
— Nostradamus
Context: If I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.
— Nostradamus
Letter from Salon to his son Cesar (March 1555) as translated by Peter Lemesurier http://www.propheties.it/nostradamus/letters/cesar.htm
