Best 530 quotes in «tradition quotes» category

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.

Denzal Sinclaire embodies the tradition of the great singers I love like Nat Cole, yet definitely has his own voice. He is one of my favourite singers.

Each time, storytellers clothed the naked body of the myth in their own traditions, so that listeners could relate more easily to its deeper meaning.

Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

French rhetorical models are too narrow for the English tradition. Most pernicious of French imports is the notion that there is no person behind a text. Is there anything more affected, aggressive, and relentlessly concrete than a Parisan intellectual behind his/her turgid text? The Parisian is a provincial when he pretends to speak for the universe.

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

For President Donald Trump, questions about transparency start with his taxes, and why he's breaking with tradition and not releasing his returns.

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.

He who strays from the customary becomes a sacrifice to the extraordinary; he who keeps to the customary becomes its slave. He iscondemned to perish in either case.

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

Hoffmeier furnishes a sophisticated fresh approach to the Biblical Exodus traditions filled with detailed Egyptological background, and utterly indispensable because of its basis in recent, and in many cases as yet unpublished, archaeological data. This is a virtual encyclopedia of the Exodus.

Historically Turkey hasn't had much success in attracting foreign investment. Slowly that is changing. There's a tradition of arbitrary decisions by government ministers and senior civil servants, which would ruin businesses from one day to the next, and which has tended to deter foreign investment. That's changing, and convergence with E.U. practices is a good thing in that it improves governance.

Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.

However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends. The process of being a writer is much more interior than being a scientist, because science is so reactionary. I think that all research scientists think of themselves as belonging to a grand tradition, building on work that has been worked on since the very beginning of science itself. Whereas I'm not sure writers think of themselves in the same way.

I adore tradition. I cannot stand habit. Simply to repeat is nothing, also to destroy is nothing. Tradition is never interrupted, we are always evolving but never interrupted.

I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

I belong rather to a more classical tradition of social analysis.

I belong to a tradition that believes that the death of a single child is a blemish on creation.

I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.

If in Nietzsche's thinking the prior tradition of Western thought is gathered and completed in a decisive respect, then the confrontation with Nietzsche becomes one with all Western thought hitherto.

If... [Alban] Berg departs so radically from tradition, through his substitution of a symmetrical partitioning of the octave for the asymmetrical partionings of the major/minor system, he departs just as radically from the twelve-tone tradition that is represented in the music of Schoenberg and Webern, for whom the twelve-tone series was always an integral structure that could be transposed only as a unit, and for whom twelve-tone music always implied a constant and equivalent circulation of the totality of pitch classes.

If Donald Trump is one thing, he's a disruptive force who has never met a tradition and precedent that he doesn't want to disrupt.

I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

If you go deep enough into any faith tradition, you find the common ground with all faith traditions.

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge, not innocence.