Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
Lemony SnicketAs an anarch, who acknowledges neither law nor custom, I owe it to myself to get at the very heart of things. I then probe them in terms of their contradictions, like image and mirror image. Either is imperfect – by seeking to unite them, which I practice every morning, I manage to catch a corner of reality.
Ernst JüngerTags: reality law custom anarch
The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.
Michel de MontaigneWe naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
MaimonidesTags: opinions thought ideas views habit custom
This man's spiritual power has been precisely this, that he has distinguished between custom and creed. He has broken the conventions, but he has kept the commandments.
G.K. ChestertonTags: power spirituality creed commandments custom
Nice customs curtsy to great kings.
William ShakespeareTags: authority tradition custom
What if custom is wrong? demanded the part of her that believed in the code of chivalry. A knight must set things right.
Tamora PierceTags: chivalry custom knighthood
We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call our religious faith. But local customs are infinite and contradictory. Which are we to obey, and which not to obey? The Brāhmin of Southern India, for instance, would shrink in horror at the sight of another Brahmin eating meat; a Brahmin in the North thinks it a most glorious and holy thing to do—he kills goats by the hundred in sacrifice. If you put forward your custom, they are equally ready with theirs. Various are the customs all over India, but they are local. The greatest mistake made is that ignorant people always think that this local custom is the essence of our religion.
Swami VivekanandaTags: religion 1897 india custom madura
Curiously, among the few survivors from this culinary onslaught is one that is most difficult to understand: the fish knife. Though it remains the standard instrument for dealing with fish of all kinds, no one has ever identified a single advantage conferred by its odd scalloped shape or worked out the original thinking behind it. There isn't a single kind of fish that it cuts better or bones more delicately than a conventional knife does.
Bill BrysonTags: dining custom ettiquette silverware
The believer is not a slave to fashion.
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