We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature..
I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose..
French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a t….
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppres….
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime..
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time..
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly..
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed..
I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, ….
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….
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….
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….
Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation..
We should not be followers of traditions that go against human rights...we are human beings and we make traditions..
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully..
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years..
India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial..
Working at BBC, at the head of one of the top dramas, is a tradition for great actors..
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet..
The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconc….
Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?.