Quotes About Tradition

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.

God demands a conversion of the mind and heart as the basis of peace and security (cf. Is 26:3), not the superstitious veneration of a stone building or a traditionally sacred site

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

Intruding upon a dimension rightfully ours, modern medicine robs us of the dignity of what people in the past regarded as most precious: that final moment of death.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.

Common sense is the folklore of philosophy.

The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.

I'm not superstitious. I'm a witch. Witches aren't superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

India is a civilization where the principle and philosophy of sacrifice is ingrained as part of our upbringing.

There is no such thing as 'God given scripture', 'the messenger of God' or 'the Last Prophet'.

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

It is culture that is the b

If you wish to break with tradition, learn your craft well, and embrace adversity

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.