T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency “to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having...

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

To recognize untruth as a condition of life–that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.

But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come...

This is an incredibly diverse state. There are a lot of different immigrant groups that all bring their own traditions with them.

… in these new days and in these new pages a philosophical tradition of the spontaneity of speculation kind has been rekindled on the sacred isle of Éire, regardless of its creative custodian never having...

And,” Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, “it’s tradition for new arrivals to help with the pep rally.”Brooklyn quirked her lips in doubt. “Tradition?””It’s a new tradition,” Amber shot back.”Clearly the deeper meaning...

Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one’s mind not be a blank slate but already properly...

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let’s be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

My mother gave it to me mother, who passed it to me. Now is the right time to give it to you. Not just because you’re leaving and will need something that always connects you...

Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

It’s tough when markets change and your people within the company don’t.

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.

One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the radical who starts to question its very being, the reformer who...

I respect traditional people – they have the eyes which see value in the tarnished. This is a gift in itself. Tradition requires a wealth of discipline in order to be adhered to, hence it...

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition.

I’m not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all...

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.