Famous Quotes About Tradition By Reference

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A precedent embalms a principle.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

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2

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

T. S. Eliot

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Allan Bloom

Tradition
4

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

T. S. Eliot

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5

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Buckminster Fuller

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6

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

Alexander Herzen

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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Alfred Jarry

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 around.

G. K. Chesterton

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

Tradition

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A precedent embalms a principle.

A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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 around.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.