"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead"
- Allan Bloom
About this Quote
In this quote, Allan Bloom is suggesting that as soon as something ends up being acknowledged as a tradition, it loses its vigor and becomes stagnant. He is implying that traditions are suggested to be continuously developing and adjusting to the changing times, but once they are solidified and accepted as the standard, they lose their initial function and meaning. Bloom is cautioning against blindly following traditions without questioning their relevance and significance in the present. He believes that customs should be constantly challenged and reevaluated in order to keep them alive and significant. This quote acts as a tip to not let customs become rigid and lifeless, but rather to continuously revive them.
This quote is written / told by Allan Bloom between September 14, 1930 and October 7, 1992. He was a famous Philosopher from USA.
The author also have 18 other quotes.
"Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing"
"I don't really know of the Jewish tradition of comedy, only the Jewish tradition of not keeping your mouth shut. Complaining about all that is hard, unfair or ridiculous in life-having strong feelings, and not being able to suppress them. That, to me, is Jewish"
"I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture"
"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"
"Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition"
"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around"