Between Quote by Emile Durkheim

The sacred cannot be precisely defined. Each of us perceives it through the lens of a unique personal history. For me, sacredness is an…

— Anthony Lawlor

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

— Jonathan Haidt

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas…

— Salman Rushdie

There are some things that are sacred and should be kept close.

— Selah Louise Marley

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with…

— Mircea Eliade

Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane.

— Mircea Eliade

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

— Madeleine L'Engle

Human beings are religious animals.

— Umberto Eco

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…

— Dennis Prager

We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.

— Paulo Coelho

“A sense of the sacred is inseparable from a sense of radical discontinuity, be it temporal, rational, experiential, or a combination of the three.…

— Eric A. Eliason

The point is that most of what we currently hold sacred is not sacred for any reason other than that it was thought sacred…

— Sam Harris