"I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years"
- Hans Kung
About this Quote
Hans Kung's quote speaks with the value of tradition and the value of seeking to the past. He is recommending that the Catholic custom has a long and abundant history, spanning 2 thousand years. This is a testament to the strength and durability of the Catholic faith, and the fact that it has actually been able to endure and flourish for so long. Kung is likewise emphasizing the importance of looking to the past for guidance and motivation. He thinks that the Catholic custom has much to use in regards to knowledge and insight, which it is very important to draw on the lessons of the past in order to notify our present and future. By looking to the past, we can acquire a much better understanding of our existing scenario and how to progress. Kung's quote is a suggestion of the value of custom and the worth of looking to the past for guidance.
"Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear"
"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"
"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"
"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition"
"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"
