Tradition Quotes
The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.
Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.
As the spiral of modern art history continues to wind down, we can see the increasing demand for tradition in the visual arts.
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.
Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.
We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other peoples religion, and we have a long tradition of that.
The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.
It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
He who does not believe according to the tradition of the Catholic Church is an unbeliever.
Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.
The Gandhi family has a tradition of being good hosts. When you call upon them, they treat you with a lot of respect.
These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we were fully grown and they became our sole inheritance.
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.
Because I was a woman, I was vulnerable. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman.'
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic of history.
The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether
I come from a liberal tradition. I'm Jewish. My dad was a liberal. What I've found is that people who see themselves as thoughtful, caring, educated and informed have swallowed psychiatry as the way.
The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.
Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
I have a New Year's tradition. I lay all my travel dreams on the table, sort them out, prioritize, and begin the process of turning those dreams into reality.
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
The modern tradition of equating death with an ensuing nothingness can be abandoned. For there is no reason to believe that human death severs the quality of the oneness in the universe.
Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.