Profane Quotes
110 quotes by 92 authors
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Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
— Theodor Adorno
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There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.
— Isaac Newton
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Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you…
— Clement of Alexandria
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None of us like the concept of law because none of us like the restraints it puts on us. But when we understand that God…
— Ravi Zacharias
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The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge…
— William Lyon Phelps
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting the low antiquity of the…
— William Buckland
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The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when…
— Christian Friedrich Schonbein
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The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings…
— Stephen King
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
— St. Jerome
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But if out of smugness, or even cowardice, this battle is not fought to its end, then take a look at the peoples five hundred…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
— Meir Kahane
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to…
— Georges Bernanos
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These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right…
— Janet Morris
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Like her friend and admirer Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst was a passionate explorer of the sacred and the profane, the pure and the obscene, and…
— Benjamin Moser
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I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a…
— Andrew Dice Clay
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Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
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Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou…
— Walter Raleigh
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The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane…
— George Washington
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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion....
— James Madison
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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