Profane Quotes

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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is… — Rajneesh
Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the… — Mircea Eliade
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ...… — Ludwig Feuerbach
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred. — Paulo Coelho
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is… — George Washington
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society… — Mircea Eliade
Itâ€™s dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony… — R C Sproul
When we make our art a practice, when we make our workspace sacred and enter it daily with respect and high intention, then we elevate… — Steven Pressfield
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. — Stephen Fry
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. — Tariq Ali
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed… — Pope Pius IV
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware… — James Payn
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made.… — Jacques Ellul
For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show… — Gregory of Nyssa
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. — Paulo Coelho
You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to… — Mario Batali
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your… — Laozi

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