Tradition Quotes - Page 5

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.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Surely, a single bunch of carrots painted naively, just as we personally see it, is worth all the endless banalities of the Schools, all those dreary pictures concocted out of tobacco juice according to time-honored formulas?

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

Science?is so greatly opposed to history and tradition that it cannot be absorbed by our civilization.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

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.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

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.

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure.

The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

Ultimately, there is no such thing as "my consciousness," but just the one consciousness and to sense your connectedness with the one (I can sense that continuously, which is why I can say that I know this for sure) to sense that connectedness with the one consciousness that pervades the universe, which in some traditions is called God, to sense that frees you of fear, from anxiety, and takes you to a very deep place of peace, but also of heightened aliveness.

I still noticed that little streak of rebelliousness coming up in me again - the same sense of dissatisfaction I had felt earlier with the empty rituals and institutionalized values of all religious traditions.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.