Quotes About Tradition

La libertad de espíritu (...) se mide por su capacidad de disociar ideas tradicionalmente inseparables

No es el ayer, el pretérito, el haber tradicional, lo decisivo para que una nación exista. Este error nace, como ya he indicado, de buscar en la familia, en la comunidad nativa, previa, ancestral, en el pasado, en suma, el origen del Estado. Las naciones se forman y viven de tenr un programa para mañana.

las estrellas son la guía que el gaucho tiene en la pampa.

El mediocre no inventa nada, no crea, no empuja, no rompe, no engendra; pero, en cambio, custodia celosamente la armazón de automatismos, prejuicios y dogmas acumulados durante siglos, defendiendo ese capital común contra la asechanza de los inadaptables.

In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.

Native gods, called anitos, were often not abandoned, but instead were transformed into saints and were often venerated in small chapels attached to private homes.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

The author of 2 Enoch follows a tradition in which an aged mother, who had been barren up to her deathbed, miraculously conceived Melchizedek without human intervention. Before she was able to give birth to the baby she died. The baby then emerged from her dead body with the maturity of a three-year-old boy.

As long as we can remember them, our families will always be with us.

The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. "You are not the first laevvel I've known," he said. "Laevvel?" She'd never heard the word before. "Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran'maur. It means 'beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna', in fact." He smiled and rested a hand on her head. "When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy's body.

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

contredisez sans cesse cet esprit de nouveauté et de changement, jusque dans les petites choses; laissez pendre sur vos murs les tapisseries enfumées de vos aïeux; chargez vos tables de leur pesante argenterie. Vous dites: 'Mon père est mort dans cette maison, il faut que je la vende !' Anathème sur ce sophisme de l'insensibilité ! dites au contraire : 'Il y est mort, je ne puis plus la vendre'.

Quintilian said—"Prefer the oldest of the new and the newest of the old." Pope put this in rhyme and it still holds good: In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.

Man, I think you're actually proud of being a Luddite.

Between two each places stands a two-handed bowl, or ecuelle, which is filled with soup or stew. Two neighbors share the ecuelle, as well as a winecup and spoon.

Love, compassion, and peace do not belong to any religion or tradition. They are qualities in each one of us, qualities of our hearts and minds..

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.

There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

In fact, I believe that Americans in general are losing touch with the past, with our history and cultural inheritance. We live in an age of instant gratification. We no longer know our forebears. This is one reason we feel so fractured today. Dvo?ák was bent on excavating roots. This exercise has never seemed more timely.

Well, sir, you must know, as you didn't hear it afore, that there was a king, called King O'Toole, who was a fine old king in the old ancient times,