Insight Quote by Richard M. Weaver

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

— James Hillman

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

— Margaret Drabble

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

— Henry James

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

— Edith Wharton

Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is…

— Jaroslav Pelikan

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

— Allan Bloom

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it.

— Glenn Gould

There is only one thing better than tradition and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.

— James Russell Lowell

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing

— Jose Bergamin

The only alternative to tradition is bad tradition

— Jaroslav Pelikan

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition…

— Friedrich Nietzsche