Tradition Quotes

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn’t clear, was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

Our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation.

Unless there will be some radical change, which is unlikely, I will say the tradition of Kemalism will be dead in Turkey. And Turkey is becoming a more Islamic state, in the traditional sense.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God’s chosen.

So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.