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Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in trad

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

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The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they are always changing with the fluid expansion and contraction of my relationships to the world. – Medard Boss

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When we visualize something, we establish a relationship to the thing itself, not to some mere subjective representation of it inside us. – Medard Boss

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

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There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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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 around. – G. K. Chesterton

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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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