Tradition Quotes - Page 3

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

If you try to copy something exactly you won't get it correct, because you don't share the same tradition and context.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.

One moment it's a cathedral, at another time there is no words to describe it when it ceases, for short periods of time, to have any regard for the proprieties that constitute not only Parliament, but its tradition. I've seen it in all its greatness. I have inwardly wept over it when it is degraded.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

These musicians, such as these Cubans in Havana, are a part of a scene that did produce great music and great musicians. They came from this tradition, so it's a good place to look. It's like prospecting: You gotta know where to look.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.

The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

In the Jewish tradition of the Bible it says, "Speak to her softly, so that she will want to engage in sexual activity." In today's world, there's a little bit of a danger in that people don't really talk to each other. You see couples walking in the street, each one of them texting someone else. That worries me.

Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.