Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
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You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let read more
You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking
Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in read more
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom read more
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
