Tradition Quotes

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We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Custom is almost a second nature. — Plutarch
Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful. — Michel de Montaigne
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing sacred about convention; there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims; but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a… — George Santayana
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness. — Elizabeth Bowen
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes… — Mark Twain
In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces. — W. Somerset Maugham
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. — Thomas Carlyle
The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom. — Michel de Montaigne
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… — Samuel Johnson
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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. — Oscar Wilde
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… — Albert Einstein
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… — George W. Bush
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… — Ronald Reagan
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.… — Louis Kronenberger
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… — Jack Kornfield
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… — Claude Debussy
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
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… — Jack Kornfield
Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,… — Rajneesh

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