Allusion Quote by Harryette Mullen

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

— Jose Bergamin

“At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what remains its critically profound…

— S. Kelley Harrell

Usefulness! It is not a fascinating word, and the quality is not one of which the aspiring spirit can dream o' nights, yet on…

— Ellen Terry

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the…

— Julius Evola

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

— Girolamo Savonarola

An art of expression should begin with childhood, and the lucid use of one's mother tongue should be typical of that art. The sense…

— Louis Sullivan

“In actual fact, conventions are the death of real tradition as they are of all real life. They are parasites which attach themselves to…

— Thomas Merton

“A terroir only exists by virtue of one's childhood mythology . . . we have invented these words of tradition rooted deep in the…

— Muriel Barbery

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.”

— Frederick Franck

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

— Ellen Goodman

And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the…

— Michel Foucault