Profane – Quotes

We speak of profane

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

The artist at her best – wild, passionate, rebellious, and human – is often too large and truthful a creature for society’s taste. The artist at her most outlandish – profane, eccentric, even a little mad – is at least as disquieting a figure. Eric Maisel

The fact that slang

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but \”flivver,\” \”taxi,\” the \”movies,\” \”deadly\” (meaning dull), \”feeling fit,\” \”feeling blue,\” \”grafter,\” a \”fake,\” \”grouch,\” \”hunch\” and \”right o!\” are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude. … Read more

By definition, sacred beings

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

A society whose members

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 … Read more

… not only dowomen

… 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

Profaneness is a brutal

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The philosopher, who with

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history, will probably conclude that, if the eyes of the spectators have sometimes been deceived by fraud, the understanding of the readers has much more frequently been insulted by fiction. Edward Gibbon

Ireland still remains the

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. Friedrich Engels

There is nothing more

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