A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. – Joseph Lancaster
In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war. – Arthur Henderson
