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Love is profane, since it mortally reaches toward the heaven in ye!
— Herman Melville
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.
— Francis Parker Yockey
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To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.
— Bill Haywood
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
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
Young man, there are some things in the world so profane that their only real value is in not knowing about them.
— Richard Kadrey
Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.
— Robert Lowth
A beast sacred and profane bore him north, with a beautiful, terrifying woman, to defend a city wonderful in its horrors.
— Max Gladstone
Doubts must be resolved alone within the soul. Otherwise one would profane one's own powerful solution.
— Wassily Kandinsky
No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.
— 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
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
Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh.Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine. — Kendare Blake
It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If nothing is holy, nothing is profane.
— Dennis Prager
It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves.
— Meir Kahane
Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
What is sacred to one is profane to another.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
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
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
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
— Thomas Hobbes
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
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.
— Thomas Adams
We hereby declare the end to the wall dividing the sacred from the profane: from now on, all is sacred.
— Paulo Coelho
What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.
— Richard Pryor
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[T]ruth is considered profane, and only illusion is sacred
— Ludwig Feuerbach
What is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd? ...
— John Geddes
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.
— John Patrick Hickey
I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to humor.
— Mort Sahl
Every profane word Gray had ever heard, read, uttered, or invented spewed forth from his mouth.
— Tessa Dare
And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.
— Brian McGreevy
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
Profane, vulgar, or crude language and inappropriate or off-color jokes are offensive to the Lord. Never misuse the name of God or Jesus Christ.
— Thomas S. Monson
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
— Henry David Thoreau
All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
— Gustavo Gutierrez
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
The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
— Robert L. Millet
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
— St. Jerome
There is then no sacred or profane, spiritual or sensual, but everything that lives is pure and void.
— Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Scriptures, n. 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 sacred is a fine hiding place for the profane.
— David Mitchell
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
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
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
— Saint Ignatius
It is hereby decreed that the wall separating the sacred and the profane be toen down. From now on everything is sacred.
— Paulo Coelho
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
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
War is a profane thing.
— Norman Schwarzkopf
