“you have a habit of being quick to place people into categories of right and wrong, holy and profane, then what I… — David Lomas Copy Share Image
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. — Paula Malcomson Copy Share Image
I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a… — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Victimhood, in the intersectional way of seeing the world, is akin to sainthood; power and privilege are profane. — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and… — Charles Bradlaugh Copy Share Image
Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and… — Benjamin Moser Copy Share Image
But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nothing is so convenient as a decisive argument ... which must at least silence the most arrogant bigotry and superstition, and free… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Profane had got into this way of thinking, and along with parties in the daytime and a rotating shift system devised by… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
“I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient… — René Guénon Copy Share Image
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to… — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention,… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
