Friedrich Schiller Quotes

By forbidding Jews to destroy their hair, the Bible warns them away from seeking the siren song of eternal youth. By encouraging Jews to grow beards, it reminds them that they will not be young forever, that they must prepare the ground for those who come after, just as their fathers did for them.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.

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

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

Country, Religion, Family!

Culture is a reflection of values.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

Creeds, like other goods, pass by inheritance to descendants.

If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.

All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

I've studied my culture deeply and I'm very aware of my tradition.

Culture is central to what makes us human.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

I don't think it's helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don't believe in anymore.

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his old house-furniture, the dear inheritance from his forefathers: For time consecrates, and what is gray with age becomes religion.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

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

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.