“ The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words. ”
- Lord Kelvin- Copy
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“ Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 I find more marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatever. ”
- Isaac Newton- Copy
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“ Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew? ”
- Sigmund Freud- Copy
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“ In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
- 624
“ But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers. ”
- Bible- Copy
- 440
“ The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ Man's highest blessedness,In wisdom chiefly stands;And in the things that touch upon the Gods,'Tis best in word or deedTo shun unholy pride;Great words of boasting bring great punishments,And so to grey-haired ageTeach wisdom at the last. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous will be delivered. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 693
“ Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ”
- Abraham Cowley- Copy
- 436
“ I don't think you can look for love. All you can do is get yourself in a situation where you don't discourage something that may be rather nice. ”
- Linda Ronstadt- Copy
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“ We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. ”
- Silvia Cartwright- Copy
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“ The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I determined that if I was to carve out a piece of reportorial territory for myself it would be doing the hard interview, irreverent if necessary, the facade-piercing interview. ”
- Mike Wallace- Copy
- 867
“ The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ”
- Thomas Hobbes- Copy
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“ No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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 W. Adorno- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Parents have a right to insist that godless evolution not be taught to their children. ”
- Patrick Buchanan- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Love — that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home — sometimes burns at unholy altars. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
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