No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

(Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

For tradition to be alive it has to be allowed to be a fountain of power for things undreamt of, things to come.

Some people imagine that by returning to tradition, you will renew it. This is not true, for by returning to tradition, you renew nothing. But by setting out from it and adding to it, you renew its power, because only by addition can you prepare the future path for the living sap within it.

My hope is that tradition should be the sap of progress.