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Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. -- Henry David Thoreau
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it. -- Robert Lowth
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. -- Thomas Hobbes
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. -- Meir Kahane
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
Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself. -- Thomas Pynchon
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 critic for life. -- Henry Van Dyke
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. -- George Washington
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 of which profit cannot be squeezed. -- Desiderius Erasmus
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, where it is out of place. -- Jean de la Bruyere
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 to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. -- Justin Winsor
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 will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred. -- Ernest Hemingway
I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. -- Horace
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. -- Tariq Ali
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period -- Francis Parker Yockey
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history. -- Isaac Newton
No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. -- Ambrose Bierce
The devil tempts men through their ambition, their cupidity, or their appetite, until he comes to the profane swearer, whom he clutches without any reward. -- Horace Mann
If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. -- William Shakespeare
The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane. -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science. -- Hippocrates
When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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 detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time. -- Mircea Eliade
This world is filled with many vulgar and dishonorable things that will claw and tear at your Christian purity if you allow them to. Don't let them! Seek instead the things of God. He will purify you and free you from your slavery to profane and inconsequential things. -- Patrick Madrid
War is a profane thing. -- Norman Schwarzkopf
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history. -- Isaac Newton
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor. -- Mort Sahl
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. -- Saint Ignatius
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
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 constant. -- Andrew Dice Clay
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 humans and animals. -- Dennis Prager
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 the holy and the profane. -- Dennis Prager
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 much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Holiness is the strength of the soul. It comes by faith and through obedience to God's laws and ordinances. God then purifies the heart by faith, and the heart becomes purged from that which is profane and unworthy. -- James E. Faust
Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly. -- Jim Evans
We unavoidably stand in so many unholy places and are subjected to so much that is vulgar, profane, and destructive of the Spirit of the Lord that I encourage our Saints all over the world, wherever possible, to strive to stand more often in holy places. -- James E. Faust
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 or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. -- Tom Robbins
A society whose members are united by the fact that they think in the same way in regard to the sacred world and its relations with the profane world, and by the fact that they translate these common ideas into common practices, is what is called a Church. In all history, we do not find a single religion without a Church. -- Emile Durkheim
Better a holy discord than a profane concord. -- Thomas Adams
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane. -- St. Jerome
A single profane expression betrays a man's low breeding. -- Joseph Cook
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane. -- David Mitchell
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound. -- Richard Pryor
[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred -- Ludwig Feuerbach
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them. -- Lucretius
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. -- Francis Parker Yockey
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral. -- Robert L. Millet
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution. -- Wassily Kandinsky
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. -- Bill Haywood
Through your love existence and nonexistence merge. All opposites unite. All that is profane becomes sacred again. -- Rumi
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary. -- John Patrick Hickey
The spark of consciousness is reflected in the river, where a dance of infinite faces lined in profane lights. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
I try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. -- Paula Malcomson
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred. -- Paulo Coelho
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious. -- Saint Ignatius
The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane. -- Stephen Fry
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred. -- Paulo Coelho
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny. -- Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
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
There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah. -- Frank Schaeffer
We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light. -- Esaias Tegner
Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him! -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane. -- William Shakespeare
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 constant, -- Andrew Dice Clay
It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth. -- Neale Donald Walsch
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. -- John Milton
A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory. -- Louis Agassiz
I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness. -- Jim Goad
So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer. -- John William Draper
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. -- Sylvia Plath
In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 critic for life." -- Henry Van Dyke
The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior. -- Mircea Eliade
In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and the profane within themselves and from it forge an identity that is powerful and purposeful. -- Deepak Chopra
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. -- Theodor Adorno
... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper. -- Julie Taymor
Avoid the profane novelty of words, St. Paul says (I Timothy 6:20) ... For if novelty is to be avoided, antiquity is to be held tight to; and if novelty is profane, antiquity is sacred. -- Vincent of Lerins
Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water. -- Charles Bradlaugh
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 original unity of these opposites in the Christ-reality. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane monologue. (If you ask how I knew it was profane, I presume you have never owned a cat.) -- Barbara Mertz
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 mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao. -- Laozi

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