Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had… — John William Draper Copy Share Image
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
“Many Christians gloss over presentations of the profane in the lives of biblical heroes, but Hip Hop says, "Man, we're dealing with… — Daniel White Hodge Copy Share Image
“Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're… — Elisa Albert Copy Share Image
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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
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The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“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
What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that… — Charles Lamb 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
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
“One morning Profane woke up early, couldn't get back to sleep and decided on a whim to spend the day like a… — Thomas Pynchon 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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
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