"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it"
- Aaron Allston
About this Quote
In this quote, author Aaron Allston is expressing his complete satisfaction with relying on traditional values and beliefs. He is comfy with basing on the foundation of custom and using it as a guide in his life. However, he likewise acknowledges that custom is not foolproof and can often be flawed. Therefore, he is even more content with the concept of challenging and questioning tradition, represented by the act of cleaning his feet on it. This reveals a determination to critically examine and adjust traditional ideas, instead of blindly following them. Allston's words suggest a balance in between respecting custom and being open to change and progress.
This quote is written / told by Aaron Allston between December 8, 1960 and February 27, 2014. He/she was a famous Novelist from USA.
The author also have 18 other quotes.
"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"
