Traditions Quotes
483 Traditions quotes by 408 unique authors
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I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as…
— Carl Sagan
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A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet…
— Sam Harris
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The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion…
— Dalai Lama
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Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they…
— Joseph Campbell
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They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even…
— Isaac Asimov
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What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several…
— Amin Maalouf
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If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from…
— L. Tom Perry
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In mystical traditions, it is one's own readiness that makes experiences exoteric or esoteric. The secret isn't that you're not being told. The secret is…
— Ram Dass
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Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.
— Molly Ivins
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Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are…
— Susan Sontag
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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home. The best fiction always forced us…
— Azar Nafisi
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Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at…
— Russell Means
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We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this…
— Albert Einstein
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Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just…
— Chris Rose
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our…
— Dalai Lama
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This country, the Republic of Indonesia, does not belong to any group, nor to any religion, nor to any ethnic group, nor to any group…
— Sukarno
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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up…
— John Green
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
— Joseph Heller
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[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our…
— Sam Harris
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Once I passed through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city…
— Walt Whitman
Who Wrote These Traditions Quotes
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