Clairvoyance Quotes
Like many writers before me, I believe in coincidence and, sometimes, in the novelist's gift for clairvoyance- the word gift not being the right one, for it implies a kind of superiority. Clairvoyance is simply the part of profession: the essential leaps of imagination, the need to fix one's mind on detail-to the point of obsession, in fact, so as not to lose the thread and to give in one's natural laziness. All the, is tension, this cerebral exercise may well lead in the long run to "flashes of intuition concerning events past and future”, as defined by Larousse dictionary under "clairvoyance.”.
Patrick Modiano
If religious liberty includes, as it must, the right to communicate such experiences to others, it seems to me an impossible task for juries to separate fancied ones from real ones, dreams from happenings, and hallucinations from true clairvoyance. Such experiences, like some tones and colors, have existence for one, but none at all for another. They cannot be verified to the minds of those whose field of consciousness does not include religious insight. When one comes to trial which turns on any aspect of religious belief or representation, unbelievers among his judges are likely not to understand, and are almost certain not to believe, him.
Robert H. Jackson