"In a country of such recent civilization as……" — Felix Adler
"In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and the industry of labor, it is but natural that material interests should absorb the attention of the people to a degree elsewhere unknown."
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30 Quotes by Felix Adler
Felix Adler has 30 quotes on this site.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning,…
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the…
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of…
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For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the…
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you…
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
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We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended.
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
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