Quotes About Tradition

En général, les hommes n'aspirent à s'instruire que dans la mesure où ils sont affranchis du joug de la tradition; car tant que celle-ci est maîtresse des intelligences, elle suffit à tout et ne tolère pas facilement de puissance rivale.

Po przejÅ›ciu powa?nej choroby w niektórych krajach Azji, na przykÅ'ad w Laosie, zdarza siÄ™ zmienia? imiÄ™. Có? za wizja u ?ródeÅ' takiego zwyczaju! Po prawdzie, powinno siÄ™ zmienia? imiÄ™ po ka?dym wa?nym doÅ›wiadczeniu.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing ... a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

The English people do not easily change their rooted notions, but they have many unrooted notions.

No barbarian can bear to see one of his nation deviate from the old barbarous customs and usages of their tribe. Very commonly all the tribe would expect a punishment from the gods if any one of them refrained from what was old, or began what was new.

The quaking bystanders in a superstitious age would soon have slain an isolated bold man in the beginning of his innovations.

People, in all but the most favored times and places, are rooted to the places where they were born, think the thoughts of those places, can endure no other thoughts. The next parish even is suspected.

Respect is traditional; it is given not to what is proved to be good, but to what is known to be old.

Society is too correct and dull to be an occupation.

But a government by discussion, if it can be borne, at once breaks down the yoke of fixed custom.

That a sublime genius like the divine Plato could have been absolutely convinced of the reality of the divine idea shows us how contagious, how omnipotent, is the tradition of the religious mania even on the greatest minds.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Nothing discovers the deplorable state of depravity, to which the human mind is subject, by force of tradition, more than the unnatural and absurd notion of enhancing future bliss, by beholding fellow creatures of the nearest connexion in a state of indescribable misery, there to remain time without end!

Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it's a kitchen, if it's a place where they make food, it's fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)

Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it's the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.

As well as the way he always said Itadakimasu, quietly, before he started eating.

Principalmente non si mangia mai da soli. Il cibo è determinante alla comunicazione tra le persone. Il cibo e la famiglia, per questo ne ho fatto un simbolo.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

Who had persuaded me that God preferred four walls and a roof to wide-open spaces? When had I made the subtle switch myself, becoming convinced that church bodies and buildings were the safest and most reliable places to encounter the living God?

When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tradition, the prime exemplars of our faith.

It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.