Culture Quote by Michel Foucault

Tradition kills originality; you keep repeating the same things in tradition! Behave like the sky; always create new and different things; be original!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

— Norman O. Brown

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

“To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The recognition of…

— Hellmut and Richard Welhelm

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are…

— Marc Bloch

“When tradition thus becomes master, it does so in such a way that what it transmits is made so inaccessible, proximally and for the…

— Martin Heidegger

History, as the study of the past, makes the coherence of what happened comprehensible by reducing events to a dramatic pattern and seeming them…

— Johan Huizinga

Each person’s life is dominated by a central event, which shapes and distorts everything that comes after it and, in retrospect, everything that came…

— Suketu Mehta

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

— Paul Valery

At first the, only subconsciously apprehended, approaching confluences of complex events make themselves known intuitively within the intellectual weather. Then comes a gradually awakening…

— R. Buckminster Fuller