Martin Heidegger Quotes

I know that everything essential and great originated from the fact that the human being had a homeland and was rooted in tradition.

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

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

Societies perish when people forget where they come from.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

What does 'home' really mean? Is it merely geography, where you were born? Could it include straddling two continents and cultures? Or perhaps it's a place with a spiritual magnetism - a feeling toward a culture or people - that's tough to put into words?

The arts are what humanize science and history.

I like to honor my West African and Taino ancestry, I consider it sacred and divine.

Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese rituals, traditions, and symbols in ways that, if you go back to China today, they're not holding on to. They're getting married in white dresses and in churches.

My father, who is deeply spiritual and religious, always stressed that my siblings and I remain true to our Indian roots.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

I do think evolution is an important aspect of keeping a tradition alive. If it freezes and remains very static in its form, it dies, and so a natural evolution has to occur.

I'm a storyteller. I do this for the next generations. They have to know what traditional alpinism is all about.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.

I used to think I had this responsibility to carry on this tradition. Now I just feel like I have to keep the dance out there, keep it in the public eye.

We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.