"Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. Tradition lives in convers…"

"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routin…"

"Alongside the modern evils, we are oppressed by a whole series of inherited evils, arising from the passive survival …"

"Precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms …"

"The time-honoured tradition of the human race ... is around and about us and within us; we cannot think except in the…"

"Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the pro…"

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Trad…"

"A tradition without intelligence is not worth having."

"Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourse…"

"Belief has its structures, and its symbols change. Its tradition changes. All the relationships within these forms ar…"