Profane Quotes

110 quotes by 92 authors

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
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. — Isaac Newton
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
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
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
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
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
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
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane. — St. Jerome
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
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. — Meir Kahane
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
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
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
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
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. — Robert L. Millet
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
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
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
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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