"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past"
- Klaus Schulze
About this Quote
This quote by Klaus Schulze suggests that humans and their cultures are based on traditions that have been passed down from the past. We depend on the knowledge and experiences of our ancestors to survive, thrive and develop new ideas. Schulze is emphasizing the idea that the past is a crucial part of our present and future. We cannot discard the knowledge, developments, and insights of our predecessors. They provide us with a foundation and a starting point for our present and future endeavors. Therefore, it is essential to respect and acknowledge the past and the people who came before us.
"Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition"
"What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era"
"It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men"
"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written"
"Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition"
"There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating"
