Felix Adler Quotes

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• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
• Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target…
• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious…
• The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest…
• If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to…
• For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
• Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted…
• You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were…
• Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
• We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
• The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
• The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of…
• The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.
• The Ethical Society, therefore, is like a Church in maintaining, and emphasizing the importance of maintaining the custom of public assemblies on Sunday.
• The ethical manifold, conceived of as unified, furnishes, or rather is, the ideal of the whole.
• Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
• Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
• No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

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