T. S. Eliot Quotes About Tradition
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A tradition without intelligence is not worth having.
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Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.
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The tendency of liberals is to create bodies of men and women-of all classes-detached from tradition, alienated from religion, and susceptible to mass suggestion-mob rule. And a mob will be no less a mob if it is well fed, well clothed, well housed, and well disciplined.
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Tradition: how the vitality of the past enriches the life of the present.
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If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
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Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.
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