Tradition Quotes - Page 25

• The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Law, Morality, Customs

  Michel de Montaigne (1859). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters, with Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, Etc”, p.171

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• Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Long, Broken, Able

  Samuel Johnson (1856). “Rasselas”, p.54

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• Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sight, Experience, Generations

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• The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Inward, Proportion

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• The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Years

  'A Woman of No Importance' (1893) act 1

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• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.

  George W. Bush

  Faith, Sight, Gay Marriage

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Daughter, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• From the failure of the humanist tradition to participate fully or to act decisively, civilizations may perhaps crumble or perish at the hands of barbarians. But unless the humanist tradition itself in some form survives, there can really be no civilization at all.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Philosophy, Hands, Civilization

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• Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to help us to see in a new way by developing a stillness of mind and a strength of heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Art, Air

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• For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Life, Spiritual, Heart

  Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to love, take the time to listen to your heart. In most ancient and wise cultures it is a regular practice for people to talk to their heart. There are rituals, stories, and meditative skills in every spiritual tradition that awaken the voice of the heart. To live wisely, this practice is essential, because our heart is the source of our connection to and intimacy with all of life. And life is love. This mysterious quality of love is all around us, as real as gravity... Yet how often we forget about love.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wise, Spiritual, Real

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• Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Conquer, Customs

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• During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture, the priest, the church, into the innermost unconscious of the child so that from there you can control him.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Mean, Hypnosis

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• There is no better time than right now to start your own "family tradition" of helping needy children.

  Debby Boone

  Children, Helping, Needy

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• The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition.

  Albert Einstein

  Christian, Religious, Principles

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Noble, Helping, Neighbor

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Needs, World, Humans

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.94, Open Road Media

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• I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Night, Jewish Tradition, Taught

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• In the yogic tradition, this principle of using intense effort to burn through life's distractions is called Tapas. It's another Sanskrit word, roughly defined as "heat" or "essential energy." The concept is that through a disciplined approach to work and self-sacrifice, Tapas will burn away the negativity that separates us from God. By working our hardest and happily enduring the hardships of life we are able to create a sense of peace and clarity in ourselves.

  Russell Simmons

  Sacrifice, Self, Effort

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• The libertarian creed...offers the fulfillment of the best of the American past along with the promise of a far better future. Libertarians are squarely in the great classical liberal tradition that built the United States and bestowed on us the American heritage of individual liberty, a peaceful foreign policy, minimal government, and a free-market economy.

  Murray Rothbard

  Past, Government, Peaceful

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• All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

  Salvador Dali

  Knowledge, Science, Painting

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• The scientific tradition is distinguished from the pre-scientific tradition by having two layers. Like the latter, it passes on its theories; but it also passes on a critical attitude towards them.

  Karl Popper

  Attitude, Science, Two

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.87, Routledge

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• Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

  John Milton

  Truth, Science, Water

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.183

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