Profane Quotes

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)
The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
SCRIPTURES, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We live, after all, in a world where illusions are sacred and truth profane. View quote
Tariq Ali
One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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 matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
Be advised what thou dost discourse of, and what thou maintainest whether touching religion, state, or vanity; for if thou err in the first, thou shalt be accounted profane; if in the second, dangerous; if in the third, indiscreet and foolish. View quote
Walter Raleigh
By virtue of creation, and still more the incarnation, nothing here is profane for those who know how to see. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man's greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like hard-core gay activists) who profane sacred ground do not have the imagination to educate the young. ... Until the left comes to its senses about the cultural power of religion, the right will continue to broaden its appeal. (Camille Paglia)
Euripides seems to have felt that the dignified perfection of Sophocles could be challenged only by novelty and irresponsibility. The religious conditions of the Dionysian festival kept him within certain bounds... But within the imposed limits Euripides was as profane as he dared to be, making melodrama of the divine realities which his predecessors accepted religiously, using the stage merely as a convenience for popularizing his own eccentric values. View quote
Laura Riding
The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe. View quote
Friedrich Engels
I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come together and share. View quote
Martin Scorsese
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. View quote
Mircea Eliade
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman. View quote
Bella Abzug
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. View quote
Hippocrates
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. View quote
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
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.) View quote
Elizabeth Peters
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 try not to be too profane around children or old people. Other than that, that's how I speak. View quote
Paula Malcomson
They [men] have corrupted this [God's supernatural] order by making profane things what they should make of holy things, because in fact, we believe scarcely any thing except which pleases us. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. View quote
Francis Parker Yockey
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. View quote
Theodor Adorno