T Quotes
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“Tradition implies obedience and predictability, but the specialness of special things is their refusal to obey.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Tradition is a challenge to innovation.”
“Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things.”
Source: The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.”
“Tradition is a prop for social security.”
“Tradition is a very powerful force.”
“Tradition is an aspiration to connect the Self with the Other. One "internalizes" the Other as one acquires a sense of what one's own tradition is, what one belongs to and what gives valid shape to one's life.”
“Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.”
“Tradition is here nothing but a bulwark against the all too violently approaching storms of unfamiliar, an element which is felt to be a principle of life but also of destruction. It is impossible to understand mannerism if one does not grasp the fact that its imitation of classical models is an escape from the threatening chaos, and that the subjective over-straining of its forms is the expression of the fear that form might fail the struggle with life and art fade into soul-less beauty.”
Source: The Social History of Art: Volume 2: Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque
“Tradition is laziness.”
“Tradition is like the tether which prevents an animal from getting a blade of grass beyond the length of that tether”
Source: Commentary on Revelation
“Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.”
Source: Alternating Current
“Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.”
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.”
“Tradition is often nothing but the evidence of silence. 124”
Source: The Faces of Injustice
“Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”
“Tradition is something you can't bottle.You can't buy it at the corner store.But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.I've called upon it time and time again.And so have countless other Michigan athletes and coaches.There is nothing like it.I hope it never dies.”
“Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.”
“Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.”
“Tradition is the code that keeps change in lock. If you refuse change, you are likely to rust and guess the cause; that long held way of doing things.”
“Tradition is the illusion of permanance.”
Source: Woody Allen: Interviews
“Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.”
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.”
Source: The Vindication of Tradition: The 1983 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.”
Source: Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday
“Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in conversation with the past, while remembering where we are and when we are and that it is we who have to decide. Traditionalism supposes that nothing should ever be done for the first time, so all that is needed to solve any problem is to arrive at the supposedly unanimous testimony of this homogenized tradition.”
Source: Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday
“Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.”
“Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.”
“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”
“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”
“Tradition ist die Weitergabe des Feuers, nicht die Anbetung der Asche”
“Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.”
“Tradition? Kadash, did I ever tell you about my first sword trainer?
Back when I was young, our branch of the Kholin family didn't have grand monasteries and beautiful practice grounds. My father found a teacher for me from two towns over. His name was Harth. Young fellow, not a true swordmaster -- but good enough.
He was very focused on proper procedure, and wouldn't let me train until I'd learned how to put on a takama the right way. He wouldn't have stood for me fighting like this. You put on the skirt, then the overshirt, then you wrap your cloth belt around yourself three times and tie it.
I always found that annoying. The belt was too tight, wrapped three times -- you had to pull it hard to get enough slack to tie the knot. The first time I went to duels at a neighboring town, I felt like an idiot. Everyone else had long drooping belt ends at the front of their takamas.
I asked Harth why we did it differently. He said it was the right way, the true way. So, when my travels took me to Harth's hometown, I searched out his master, a man who had trained with the ardents in Kholinar. He insisted that this was the right way to tie a takama, as he'd learned from his master.
I found my master's master's master in Kholinar after we captured it. The ancient, wizened ardent was eating curry and flatbread, completely uncaring of who ruled the city. I asked him. Why tie your belt three times, when everyone else thinks you should do it twice?
The old man laughed and stood up. I was shocked to see that he was terribly short. 'If I only tie it twice,' he exclaimed, 'the ends hang down so low, I trip!'
I love tradition, I've fought for tradition. I make my men follow the codes. I uphold Vorin virtues. But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is old it is right.”
Source: Oathbringer (1 of 6) [Dramatized Adaptation]
“Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!”
“Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
Source: Orthodoxy
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
“Tradition of heartless facts is no better than the tradition of mindless assumptions.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.”
“Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing”
“Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.”
“Tradition that teaches intolerance is tradition no more, it is tradition of the animal, it cannot be tradition of the human.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.”
Source: Scotland & the Scottish People: An Address Delivered in the City of Memphis, Tennessee, on St. Andrew's-Day, 1875
“Tradition was safety; change was danger.”
Source: The Sparrow
“Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.”
Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier
“Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity”
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
“Tradition, history and respect; that kind of qualities I admire, that I want to see preserved. Time is the only commodity that matters. Being successful doesn't make you manage your time well; managing your time well makes you successful. Goals, Priorities, and Planning. Why am I doing this? What is the goal? Why will I succeed? What happen if I chose not to do it? 'Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement'.”
“Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel.”
“Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').”