But The Wise Perceive Things About To Happen

For the gods perceive things in the future, ordinary people things in the present, but the wise perceive things about to happen. Philostratos, Life of Apollonios of Tyana, viii, 7 Ordinary mortals know what's happening now, the gods know what the future holds because they alone are totally enlightened. Wise men are aware of future things just about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.