T. S. Eliot Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Class, Mob Rule

• If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.

  T. S. Eliot

  Basketball, Want, Individual Talent

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

• Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.

  T. S. Eliot

  Healing, Past, Vitality

• The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Writing, Men

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.28, Courier Corporation

• Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?
  She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Law, Life And Death

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.

  T. S. Eliot

  Tradition

  "After Strange Gods". Book by T. S. Eliot (p. 19), 1934.

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