Profane Quotes

110 quotes by 92 authors

I do not believe in God, but I believe God is manâ€™s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists)… — Camille Paglia
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. — Paula Malcomson
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. — Ignatius Loyola
Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution. — Wassily Kandinsky
The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist… — Eric Maisel
I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point. — Lady Gaga
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings. — Emile Durkheim
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a… — Henry Van Dyke
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out… — Desiderius Erasmus
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we… — Ernest Hemingway
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. — Thomas Hobbes
I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get… — Chuck Palahniuk
If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's… — Chuck Palahniuk
The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death, nature and God, good and evil, man and woman, and… — Dennis Prager
Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between… — Dennis Prager
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny… — Tom Robbins
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. — Henry David Thoreau

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