#profane

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

#be different #different #into #itself #omnipotent

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

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

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

#awful #beginning #brighter #coming #dark

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

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

#august #blunder #character #discovery #hardly

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

#cursing #despises #detests #every #foolish

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period. ↗

— Francis Parker Yockey

#every #period #preceding #profane #religious

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

#got #nature #nothing #nowadays #out

It is incumbent upon us to understand our greatness and believe in it so that we do not cheapen and profane ourselves. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#cheapen #greatness #incumbent #our #ourselves