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“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.”
— G. K. Chesterton, in “The Ethics of Elfland,” Orthodoxy (1908), p. 85
“A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.”
— T. S. Eliot, After Strange Gods (1934). London: Faber and Faber, p. 19
“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”
— Bruce Lee, in Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975)
“Belief has its structures, and its symbols change. Its tradition changes. All the relationships within these forms are inter-dependent. We look at the symbols, we hope to read them, we hope for sharing and communication.”
— Muriel Rukeyser, in The Life of Poetry (1949), p. 96
“You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.”
— John Searle, "The Storm Over the University", The New York Review of Books (6 December 1990)
“It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.”
— Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, p. 31

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