Joseph Joubert Quotes

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

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

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.

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

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

I always had my roots in the past.

When you're entrusted with a tradition, you've got to protect it.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

We never leave our roots. We just grow new branches.

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

If I should die, and you should choose to carry on my work, you are welcome to visit my grave. Pour some water on it and shout three times. I want to hear your voice.

But a man is not forgotten, as long as there are two people left under the sky. One, to tell the story; the other, to hear it.

Culture is coded wisdom

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

It's in my blood. My great-grandfather made wine and it's a tradition I want to pass on to my son.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

But monument themselves memorials need.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.