Best Tradition Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.”

“Those who might be tempted to give way to despair should realize that nothing accomplished in this order can ever be lost, that confusion, error and darkness can win the day only apparently and in a purely ephemeral way, that all partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the greater equilibrium of the whole, and that nothing can ultimately prevail against the power of truth.”

“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, punishing us, rewarding us as human judges might.”

“The wisdom of Africa, carried through millennia of tradition and a just balance with the universe, can guide us out of global disorder and bring us back to what truly matters.”

“Civilization advances by invention, but survives by tradition.”

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to”

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.”

“But merely being tradition does not make something worthy, Kadash. We can't just assume that because something is”