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
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
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. — Rumi 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
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The spirit only can teach. Not any profane man, not any sensual, not any liar, not any slave can teach, but only… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls.… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter,… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein Copy Share Image
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