There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior, and the enormous role of the cultural process of the transmission of tradition.

The dead govern the living.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

They that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

The dead govern the living.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.