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
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. — Paulo Coelho 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
“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
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good,… — Stanislaw Lem 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
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are countries in which public establishments are considered by the government as its own personal affair, so that it admits persons… — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
How do we allow God into our minds, bodies, relationships, and life? We stop squeezing the divine out through our preconceived notions… — David Simon Copy Share Image
I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity… — Vincent Price 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
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
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how… — Anonymous 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
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
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow… — Patrick Madrid Copy Share Image
Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is… — Vincent of Lerins Copy Share Image
When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
“...it is infinitely better that the profane and loose be unmasked than to be muffled up under the veil and hood of… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
For my part, I would rather look toward Rutland than Jerusalem. Rutland,--modern town,--land of ruts,--trivial and worn,--not toosacred,--with no holy sepulchre, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
![“For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts is, from an aesthetic point of view, grotesque. But you seem compelled by that risk in order to get to the other end of the equation.” quote by Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf1/zadie-smith-584_aesthetic_for-example-you-have-these-grotesque-hil_2386734.jpg)
![“Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his past. He forms himself by a series of denials and refusals, but he continues to be haunted by the realities that he has refused and denied. To acquire a world of his own…” quote by Mircea Eliade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27a/mircea-eliade-3290_ancestor_do-what-he-will-he-the-profane-man-is-an_2341243.jpg)
![“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/222/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_clarity_i-have-always-thought-that-clarity-is-a_2495744.jpg)
![“In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.” quote by Adrienne Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd8/adrienne-rich-803_conscious_in-family-snapshots-the-flow-of-profane_653894.jpg)
